Best Teacher Appreciation Quotes
Teachers deserve our gratitude and respect. They face countless challenges every day. Teachers, whether they’re yours, your kids’, or a friend or family member who is a teacher, would love a beautiful, hand-written card expressing your appreciation anytime. Here are some examples of the best teacher appreciation quotes.
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- “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
- “Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.” – Sidney Hook
- “Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” – Japanese Proverb
- “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.”- Carl Jung
- “Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”- John C. Maxwell
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- “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” – Khalil Gibran
- “The best thing about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest thing about being a teacher is that it matters every day.”— Todd Whitaker
- “Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that’s because you’re a teacher.” – Aaron Bacall
- “Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.” –Andy Rooney
- “I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” – John Steinbeck
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Short Teacher Appreciation Quotes
- “If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.” – Guy Kawasaki
- “Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.”— Arne Duncan
- I am indebted to my father for living but to my teacher for living well. —Alexander the Great
- “The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra Trenfor
- “What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” – Karl Menninger
Inspirational Quotes About Teachers
- “A teacher affects eternity; they can never tell where their influence stops.” – Henry Adams
- “One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.” – Philip Wylie
- “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” – Colleen Wilcox
- “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats
- “To teach is to touch a life forever.”
- “Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” – Chinese Proverb
- “A good teacher is like a candle—it consumes itself to light the way for others.” – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- “Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.” – Joyce Meyer
- “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.”
Thank You Quotes for Teachers
- “The influence of a good teacher can never be erased.”
- “Teachers plant seeds that grow forever.”
- “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.”
- “Thank you for planting seeds of knowledge that will grow forever.”
- “Because of you, I have a dream, a purpose, and the confidence to chase them.”
- “Your guidance has been a light that will guide me through every dark tunnel.”
Quotes About Teachers’ Impact
- “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats
- “What sculptors do to marble, teachers do to minds.”
- “Teachers: the ones who educate, motivate, and inspire.”
- “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
- “Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.”
- “A teacher’s influence lasts a lifetime, even if their time with you feels short.”
Humorous Teacher Quotes
- “Teaching: the only profession where you steal things from home and bring them to work.”
- “Teachers call it teaching. We call it performing miracles.”
- “Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and love of bringing the first two loves together.”
