Top 99 Happy Teacher Appreciation Week Quotes

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week Quotes are a great way to show appreciation for the hard work and dedication of our educators. Here are the top 99 quotes to inspire and uplift our teachers:

1. “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” – Colleen Wilcox
2. “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.” – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
3. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
4. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William A. Ward
5. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Adams
6. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” – Mark Van Doren
7. “In teaching others we teach ourselves.” – Proverb
8. “Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.” – Joyce Meyer
9. “The influence of a good teacher can never be erased.” – Unknown
10. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert
11. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
12. “The best teachers are those who pass on their zeal and enthusiasm as a legacy to their students.” – Robert John Meehan
13. “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
14. “The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.'” – Maria Montessori
15. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
16. “Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.” – Charles Kuralt
17. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats
18. “A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.” – Louis A. Berman
19. “The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.” – Plato
20. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey
21. “A good teacher is like a good entertainer – first he must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.” – John Henrik Clarke
22. “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
23. “A good teacher is a determined person.” – Gilbert Highet
24. “The most valuable resource that all teachers have is each other. Without collaboration, our growth is limited to our own perspectives.” – Robert John Meehan
25. “The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.” – Elbert Hubbard
26. “The teacher’s task is to initiate the learning process and then get out of the way.” – John Warren
27. “The best teachers are those who know where to find what they do not know.” – George Meredith
28. “The best teachers are the ones who change their minds.” – Terry Heick
29. “A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.” – Ruth Beechick
30. “The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.” – Giovanni Ruffini
31. “One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.” – Philip Wylie
32. “The great teacher is not the man who supplies the most facts, but the one in whose presence we become different people.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. “A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.” – Louis A. Berman
34. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
35. “Teaching: the only profession where you steal supplies from home to bring to work.” – Unknown
36. “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” – Unknown
37. “Teachers plant seeds of knowledge that grow forever.” – Unknown
38. “A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart.” – Unknown
39. “Teachers change the world one child at a time.” – Unknown
40. “A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well grounded.” – D. Martin
41. “A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.” – Unknown
42. “A true teacher is one who can teach himself out of a job.” – Unknown
43. “To teach is to learn twice.” – Joseph Joubert
44. “A teacher’s greatest joy is seeing his/her students succeed.” – Unknown
45. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
46. “Teaching is not a profession; it’s a passion.” – Unknown
47. “A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.” – Unknown
48. “The most important part of teaching is not what the teacher does, but what the student learns.” – Unknown
49. “A teacher’s day is never done.” – Unknown
50. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
51. “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” – Jacques Barzun
52. “Teachers are people who start things they never see finished, and for which they never get thanks until it is too late.” – Max Forman
53. “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C.S. Lewis
54. “Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.” – Unknown
55. “The future of the world is in my classroom today.” – Ivan Welton Fitzwater
56. “Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.” – Scott Hayden
57. “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
58. “Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” – Colleen Wilcox
59. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
60. “Teachers are the architects of the future.” – Unknown
61. “A good teacher is like a good wine – it gets better with age.” – Unknown
62. “Teaching is a work of heart.” – Unknown
63. “The best teachers are those who know how to bring out the best in their students.” – Unknown
64. “A good teacher is like a good entertainer – first he must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.” – John Henrik Clarke
65. “A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.” – Ever Garrison
66. “A great teacher inspires.” – Unknown
67. “Teaching is the profession that creates all other professions.” – Unknown
68. “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor
69. “A teacher’s influence is eternal.” – Unknown
70. “The best teachers are those who inspire their students to think for themselves.” – Unknown
71. “Good teachers are like unicorns – rare and magical.” – Unknown
72. “The best teachers are those who show you where