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Quotes About Dedication

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
Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
~ Maggie Gallagher
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
Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
~ William Glasser
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 no doubt that the foundation of being a great yoga teacher is being a great yoga student.
~ Rod Stryker
We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they teach, and who can communicate with kids.
~ Parker J. Palmer
Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves.
~ Todd Whitaker
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
I think good teachers are underpaid.
~ Peter Brimelow
Most of teachers have but one object, viz. to draw their salary. I do not think that a teacher should have no salary. But I think they should earn it first and then think of it.
~ Sarah Winnemucca
Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.
~ Eugen Herrigel
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
Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.
~ Solomon Ortiz
The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you.
~ Fred Rogers
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
~ Horace Mann
What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.
~ Andy Hargreaves
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
~ Anton Chekhov
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.
~ Andres Segovia
I'm a high school teacher. I'm someone who stumbles my way through, leads with my chin in some cases, leads with my heart in all cases.
~ Justin Trudeau
We're teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?
~ Ulysses S. Grant