Quotes About Inspiration

I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

The teachers who taught me at Dreghorn Primary and Greenwood Academy were fantastic.

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.

For years, we have had many coaches in football, but there are no teachers anymore. And you see that in the play itself.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.

Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world - or a life - without them.

Speaking to numerous teachers and nurses, I am consistently struck by the sense of mission they have about their work.

I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher-God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher-God complex.

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.

I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.

In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.

One of my great teachers was the late Jean-Claude Vrinat of Taillevent in Paris.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily... thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn't always follow what was going on.

To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero.