Top 35 Teacher Appreciation Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When you learn, teach. When you get, give.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Service Quotes

2. “Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.”

— William Arthur Ward

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Impact Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Helping Quotes, Teaching Quotes

3. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

— Henry Adams

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Teacher Quotes, Teaching Quotes, School Quotes

4. “Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Positive Work Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Students, Teaching Quotes

5. “Being a teacher is not what I do, it’s who I am.”

— Jill Biden

Also featured in: Identity Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Teacher Quotes, Back-to-School Quotes

6. “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Care Quotes, Emotional Quotes

7. “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.”

— Brad Henry

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Students, Appreciation Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

8. “To teach is to learn twice.”

— Joseph Joubert

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Short Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes

9. “Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Affirmation Quotes, Appreciation Quotes

10. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

— William Arthur Ward

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Good Morning Inspirational Quotes, Quality Quotes, Smart Quotes

11. “Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.”

— Joyce Meyer

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Impact Quotes, Teacher Quotes, School Quotes

12. “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

— Margaret Fuller

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Impact Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Quotes About Ideas

13. “When one teaches, two learn.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Short Quotes, Teacher Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Teachers

14. “A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

— Horace Mann

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Learning Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Inspirational Quotes for Students

15. “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Appreciation Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Gratitude Quotes, Teacher Quotes

16. “Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage.”

— Paulo Freire

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Values Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Motivational Quotes for Students, Inspirational Quotes for Teachers

17. “Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

Also featured in: Caring Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Teacher Quotes, Teaching Quotes

18. “Begin with praise and honest appreciation.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Kindness Quotes

19. “We learn by teaching.”

— James Howell

Also featured in: Knowledge Quotes, Teacher Quotes, Teaching Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Teachers

20. “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”

— George Washington Carver

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Quotes About People, Virtue Quotes, Teacher Quotes

21. “Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Be Kind Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Appreciation Quotes

22. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”

— Mark Van Doren

Also featured in: Appreciation Quotes, Teacher Quotes, Teaching Quotes, School Quotes, Back-to-School Quotes

23. “Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.”

— Parker J. Palmer

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Inspirational Quotes for Teachers

24. “Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.”

— Parker J. Palmer

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Education Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Teachers

25. “Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.”

— Bill Gates

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Professional Growth Quotes

26. “You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.”

— Fred Rogers

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Have a Great Day Quotes, I Appreciate You Quotes

27. “Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”

— Margaret Cousins

Also featured in: Fulfillment Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Beautiful Good Morning Quotes, Thankful Quotes, Thank You Quotes

28. “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

Also featured in: Teaching Quotes, School Quotes

29. “At our best, we are all teachers.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Teaching Quotes

30. “It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.”

— Michael Morpurgo

Also featured in: Teaching Quotes

31. “Enter to learn; depart to serve.”

— Mary McLeod Bethune

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Legacy Quotes, School Quotes

32. “Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Lifelong Learning Quotes, Quotes About Kids

33. “Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.”

— Sidney Hook

Also featured in: School Quotes

34. “Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”

— John Cotton Dana

35. “If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to master a thing, teach that.”

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Also featured in: Mastery Quotes

36. “Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.”

— Solomon Ortiz

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Inspirational Quotes for Teachers, Back-to-School Quotes

37. “A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.”

— Bruce Lee