Top 100 Teacher Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

— Margaret Mead

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Common Sense Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Quotes About Kids

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

— Joyce Meyer

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

3. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”

— John Dewey

Also featured in: Study Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Teaching Quotes

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

— Henry Adams

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

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

— Jill Biden

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

6. “You haven’t taught until they’ve learned.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Mastery Quotes

7. “Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students’ lives really do.”

— Andy Hargreaves

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students, Influence Quotes, Expectations Quotes, Back-to-School Quotes

8. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Famous Quotes, Smart Quotes

9. “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Also featured in: Quality Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Purpose Quotes, Inspiring Quotes

10. “Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Feel Good Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Character Quotes

11. “Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Be Kind Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes, Spirituality Quotes, Grateful Quotes

12. “Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Study Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students

13. “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

— Horace Mann

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Quotes About People

14. “The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

15. “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”

— Edward Everett Hale

Also featured in: Inspirational Life Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes, Choices Quotes, Quotes About Trying

16. “Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Short Inspirational Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Positive Work Quotes

17. “Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.”

— Lou Holtz

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

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

— Maya Angelou

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

19. “A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.”

— Bob Proctor

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Helping Quotes

20. “Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Influence Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Students, Wednesday Inspirational Quotes

21. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

— Victor Hugo

Also featured in: Knowledge Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Students, School Quotes

22. “Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

23. “Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Quotes About Children, Family Quotes

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

— Howard G. Hendricks

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

25. “We must teach more by example than by word.”

— Mary MacKillop

Also featured in: Actions Speak Louder Than Words Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Teachers

26. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

— Albert Schweitzer

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Impact Quotes, Morality Quotes, Influence Quotes

27. “The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Practice Quotes

28. “Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”

— William Arthur Ward

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Positive Work Quotes

29. “If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.”

— Alfie Kohn

Also featured in: Caring Quotes, Teaching Quotes, Quotes About Children, Parenting Quotes

30. “We learn by teaching.”

— James Howell

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

31. “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.”

— Fred Rogers

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Care Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Values Quotes, Friendship Quotes

32. “Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”

— Roy Bennett

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Care Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Compassion Quotes

33. “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”

— Phil Collins

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, School Quotes

34. “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

35. “To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.”

— Sengcan

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Discipleship Quotes, Path Quotes, Taoism Quotes

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

— Mark Van Doren

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

37. “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”

— C. S. Lewis

38. “If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?”

— Ibn Taymiyyah

39. “What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Inspirational Quotes for Students

40. “Shall I teach you what knowledge? When you know a thing, say that you know it; when you do not know a thing, admit that you do not know it. That is knowledge.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Knowledge Quotes, Smart Quotes

41. “Teaching is listening, learning is talking.”

— Deborah Meier

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students, Teaching Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Teachers, Quotes About Listening

42. “Teach by teaching, not by correcting.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Quotes About Children, Inspirational Quotes for Teachers

43. “Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Students, Motivational Quotes for Students

44. “Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.”

— Carol S. Dweck

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students

45. “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Wise Quotes

46. “Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don’t whine; don’t complain; don’t make excuses.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Values Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

47. “And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can’t teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Care Quotes, Love You Quotes, Quotes About Children

48. “If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also featured in: Growth Mindset Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Influence Quotes, Expectations Quotes

49. “The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.”

— Joseph Campbell

50. “Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.”

— Wilferd Peterson

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Being Strong Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Moving Quotes