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Quotes About Impact

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.
~ Pete Seeger
If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.
~ W. Eugene Smith
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
~ Sophocles
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.
~ Temple Grandin
Imagine a history teacher making history.
~ Christa McAuliffe
The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.
~ William Gurnall
Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.
~ Colin O'Donoghue
Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions
~ Diane Ravitch
A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.
~ Ernest L. Boyer
You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.
~ Rudolf Steiner
I think good teachers are underpaid.
~ Peter Brimelow
You don't become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.
~ Charles M. Blow
There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.
~ Ken Robinson
When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"
~ Milton Berle
One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.
~ Andy Hargreaves
The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.
~ Andy Hargreaves
I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.
~ George Lucas
No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.
~ Andy Hargreaves
When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.
~ Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.
~ Evan Esar
Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.
~ John Dewey
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
~ John Dewey
Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched.
~ Donna Fargo