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Quotes About Influence

I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.
~ Hilary Swank
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
~ Abraham Lincoln
For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.
~ Aristotle
When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.
~ Confucius
Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.
~ Paulo Freire
Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.
~ Taylor Mali
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
~ Elie Wiesel
Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.
~ Baba Hari Dass
The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day.
~ Todd Whitaker
Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood
~ KRS-One
Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.
~ Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld
Wherever you find something extraordinary, you'll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.
~ Arne Duncan
there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be
~ J. K. Rowling
Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.
~ Linda Darling-Hammond
It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.
~ John Wooden
Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.
~ William Arthur Ward
My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.
~ Jeff Goldblum
A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done
~ Maria Montessori
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
~ Bruce Lee
There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.
~ Brett Favre
I learned how to play hard to get (push and pull) from my teacher Kwon Jiyong.
~ Seungri
I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.
~ John Calipari