Tact - Quotes

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Tact

A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung. - George Horace Lorimer

Cultivate tact for it is the mark of culture ... the lubricant of human relations, softening contacts and minimizing friction. - Baltasar Gracian

I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends. - Chelsea Handler

In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork. - Wilson Mizner

It cannot be denied that tact is a virtue. The sort of person who always manages to blurt out the tactless thing, apparently by accident, is a person full of dislike of his or her fellow creatures. But although tact is a virtue, it is very closely allied to certain vices; the line between tact and hypocrisy is a very narrow one. I think the distinction comes in the motive: when it is kindliness that makes us wish to please, our tact is the right sort; when it is fear of offending, or desire to obtain some advantage by flattery, our tact is apt to be of a less amiable kind. - Bertrand Russell

It is tact that is golden, not silence. - Samuel Butler

People with tact have less to retract. - Arnold Glasgow

Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name. - Frank Medlicott

Step with care and great tact, and remember that life's a great balancing act. - Dr. Seuss

Tact ... is the unsaid part of what you think.... And there is only one thing more potent – its opposite – the unthought part of what you say. - Henry van Dyke

Tact carries a bunch of curiously-fashioned keys, that open all kinds of doors. - Unknown 

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. - Jean Cocteau

Tact is a combination of good temper, ready wit, quickness of perception and ability to take in the exigency of the occasion instantly. - Orison Swett Marden

Tact is giving a person a pat on the back when you feel like giving him a kick in the pants. - Evan Esar

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon. - Arthur Lynch

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents. - William Gillmore Simms

Tact is rubbing out another’s mistakes, not rubbing them in. - Marvin J. Ashton 

Tact is something that goes unnoticed when it is used – but when it is not used, everybody notices. - Unknown

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. - Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to shut your mouth before someone else does it for you. - Evan Esar

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes. - Harry S. Truman

Tact is the art of building a fire under people without making their blood boil. - Franklin P. Jones

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

Tact is the art of dressing the bare facts and draping the naked truth. - Evan Esar

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. - Howard W. Newton

Tact is the art of thinking twice before saying nothing. - Evan Esar

Tact is the intelligence of the heart. - Unknown

 

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. - Howard W. Newton

Tact is the oil which lubricates society and prevents its harsh and heterogeneous particles from grating against each other; and in proportion as a person possesses this valuable emollient, so will he go roughly or smoothly through the world. - Charles William Day

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong. - Sir Hugh Percy Allen

Tact is the rare talent for not admitting you were right in the first place. - Unknown

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; its opposite, the unthought part which you say. - Henry van Dyke

Tact swings the door open to success when merit cannot even turn the knob. - A. D. Hard

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. - Oliver Herford

Tactfulness is being careful to pick the best time for all concerned. Even saying nothing may be the sort of tact that is just right for the situation. - Leo Buscaglia

The possession of tact makes a man a diplomat; the lack of it makes him a miserable failure, irrespective of other ability. - A. D. Hard

The use of tact is always needful but it is especially necessary when speaking a truth that may strike a sensitive nerve in another. - Robert E. Fisher

Talent - Quotes

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. - Sydney Smith

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. - Doris Lessing

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents. - John F Kennedy

At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. - Eric Hoffer

Because many talents are first identified and nurtured in childhood, it can be difficult to determine whether talent is innate, can be acquired through extensive practice or can only be acquired in the presence of the developing brain. - Francesca Happe & Uta Frith

Brevity is the sister of talent. - Anton Chekhov

But talent – if you don’t encourage it, if you don’t train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don’t tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn’t matter how fast it is. It’s useless. - Elizabeth Hand

Concealed talent brings no reputation. - Desiderius Erasmus

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. - Erica Jong

Genius, without talent, is a wild, and beautiful, and erratic meteor; talent, without genius, is a steady light, which lasts long, but never throws a flood of radiance upon earth or sky. - Unknown

Great talent finds happiness in execution. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade. - Ben Franklin

However you make your living is where your talent lies. - Ernest Hemingway

I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that any more because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either. - Fran Lebowitz

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein

I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire. - Gordon Lish

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and  a triumph few men ever know. - Thomas Wolfe

If we have a talent and cannot use it, we have failed. If we have a talent and use only half of it, we  have partly failed. If we have a talent and learn somehow to use all of it, we have gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few individuals ever know. - Thomas Wolfe

If you’re young and talented, it’s like you have wings. - Haruki Murakami

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent – almost like a carrier pigeon. - George Eliot

It is a great talent for a ruler to use the talents of men as though he possessed them. - Duke of Tsin

It takes little talent to see what is under one’s nose, but a good deal of it to know in what direction to point that organ. - W. H. Auden

Many times we take our talents for granted. We think because we can do something well, anyone can. Often that's not true. How can you tell when you're overlooking a skill or talent? Listen to what others say. Your strengths will capture the attention of others and draw them to you. On the other hand, when you're working in areas of weakness, few people will show interest. If others are continually praising you in a particular area, start developing it. - John C. Maxwell

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent. - Murray D. Edwards

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. - Billy Sunday

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. Each of us has some unique capabilities waiting for realization. - Sydney Smith

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do. - Myrtle Auvil

Not he deserves praise that has talents, but he that uses them. - Ivan Panin

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. - Unknown

Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals. - Zig Ziglar

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents. - Harper Lee

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. - Carl Jung

Sure, the home-field is an advantage – but so is having a lot of talent. - Dan Marino

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. - Stephen King

Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force. - Stephen King

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius. - Austin O’Malley

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. - Stephen King

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. - Hector Berlioz

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers. - Magic Johnson

Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying. - Stephen King

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. - Konstantin Stanislavsky

Talent is often mistaken for genius, especially by the man who has it. - Evan Esar

Talent must be viewed as the most indispensable ingredient for success, but success also depends on how that talent is managed. - Allan Schweyer

Talent only gives an imperfect image – the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of Genius remain unruffled. - Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott

Talent, for talent's sake, is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated: rays powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point. - Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent. - Steve Martin

The best way to get more talents is to improve the talents we have. - Edward Bickersteth 

The man who was born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more talents you have, the greater is your responsibility to use them for your own benefit and those of mankind. - Unknown

The most eminent authority does not always have the right answer. No matter what the source of discouraging advice, pay no attention to it until you have given your talent a fair trial. - Henry N. Gerguson

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. - Thomas Jeffeson

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The possession of superior talent creates more wishes than it gratifies. - Eliza Cook

The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use that one talent. - Edgar W. Work

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms; very often it does not know what to do with genius. Talent is a docile creature; it bows its head meekly while the world slips the collar over it; it backs into the shafts like a lamb. It draws its load cheerfully, and is patient of the bit and of the whip. But genius is always impatient of its harness; its wild blood makes it hard to train. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower. - Unknown

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all. - Mark Twain

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but also its own talents. - Eric Hoffer

We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to. - Tobias Wolff

We must despise no sort of talents: they all have their separate duties and uses, all the happiness of man for their object; they all improve, exalt, and gladden life. - Sydney Smith

Well-matured and well-disciplined talent is always sure of a market, provided it exerts itself; but it must not cower at home and expect to be sought for. - Washington Irving

When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes. - Charles Caleb Colton

When you are able to set free the talents in others, you automatically set free some of your own in the process. - Unknown

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. - Unknown

When your camels find no more nourishment, remove to a more fertile spot; and when your talents are not appreciated, seek another country. - Ibn Munir

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation. - Aristotle

While you have a talent, and time to use it, be diligent. - John Thornton

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. - Henri Frederic Amiel

You have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world – and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfil needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance. - Deepak Chopra

Talk / Talking - Quotes

A terrific four-letter word for psychotherapy: talk. - Unknown

And ’tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say. - Matthew Prior

Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence. - Lawrence Coughlin

Everyone is so caught up in his own passions and interests that he always wants to talk about them without getting involved in the passions and interests of those to whom he speaks, although his listeners have the same need for others to listen to and help them. - Magdeleine Sable

He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue. - Jean Baptiste Moliere

If you keep talking, you just hear yourself say what you already know. - Leo Buscaglia

No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next. - Edgar Watson Howe

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking. - Louis L'Amour

Out talking someone does not mean you have convinced him of your point-of view. - Unknown

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. - Pythagoras

Sometimes it feels better not to talk. At all. About anything. To Anyone. - Unknown

Talk about your blessings more than your talk about your problems. - Unknown

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, finds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. - Robert Luis Stevenson

Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. - Unknown

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. - Benjamin Disraeli

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they’ll say, ‘God, he said exactly what I was thinking.’ And when they begin to respect you, they’ll follow you to the death. - Lee Iacocca

Talk to yourself like you would someone you love. - Berne Brown

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. - Heinrich Heine

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. - Unknown

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. - Henry S. Haskins

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. - Oscar Wilde

Those who talk don’t know what is going on and those who know what is going on won’t talk. - Larry Speakes

To do all the talking and not be willing to listen is a form of greed. - Unknown

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. - Pearl Bailey

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something. - Jared Sparks

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato

You can talk with someone for years, every day, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever…. connections are made with the heart, not the tongue. - C. JoyBell C

You usually find yourself talking more when you are with people you have nothing to say to. - Unknown

Tasks - Quotes

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. - Dag Hammarskjold

An easy task becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance. - Terence

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. - Sandra Day O'Connor

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. - Arthur Helps

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. - William James

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you. - Og Mandino

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. - Isak Dinesen

Taxes - Quotes

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy. - Daniel Webster

At tax time, it helps to remember that if your tax obligation has increased from the previous year, it's usually because you're enjoying more income. That's a situation to which most of us aspire. Higher taxes are a price that we pay for greater success. - Richard Carlson

Don't get excited about a tax cut. It's like a mugger giving you back car fare. - Arnold H. Glasow

For patriots like me, paying taxes gives a feeling of responsibility, of being part of the fabric of our country, of contributing to the common good. - Joyce Marcel

If a government is to be prudent its taxes must produce ample revenues without discouraging enterprise; and if it is to be just it must distribute the burden of taxes equitably. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. - Austin O’Malley

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. - Herman Wouk

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power. - Peter Schiff

Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services – from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water. - Holly Sklar

Taxes are like and unlike the rain, they fall upon the just and the unjust; most hardly upon the just because they will not resort to devious ways to escape the imposition. - Paul Carus

Taxes are simply contributions demanded of citizens as their share of the expenses of government. - Paul Leroy-Beaulieu

Taxes are the lifeblood of government and no taxpayer should be permitted to escape the payment of his just share of the burden of contributing thereto. - Arthur T. Vanderbilt

Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of squawking. - Jean Baptiste Colbert

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. - John Maynard Keyes

The best things in life are tax free. - Joseph Bonkowski

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. - Denis Healey

They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money. - Al Capone

When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government. - George Cleveland

When the super-rich use offshore tax havens to avoid paying what they owe in taxes, they're reneging on their duties as citizens. It seems only fair to me that the consequences of that kind of tax avoidance ought to be loss of citizenship. - Robert Reich

Teachers - Quote

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instil a love of learning. - Brad Henry

A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others. - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson. - John Henrik Clarke

A key to growing as a teacher is to keep company mainly with teachers who uplift you, whose presence inspire you and whose dedication drives you. - Robert John Meehan

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. - Patricia Neal

A teacher affects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops. - Henry Adams

A teacher has two jobs; fill young minds with knowledge, yes, but more important, give those minds a compass so that that knowledge doesn't go to waste. - Mr. Holland's Opus

A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils. - Ever Garrison

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. - Thomas Carruthers

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. - Horace Mann

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. - Ruth Beechick

A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. - Unknown

An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more. - Bruce Lee

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant ans for the soul of the child. - Carl Gustav Jung

Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be! - Arthur C. Clarke

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers. - Confucius

Compassionate teachers fill a void left by working parents who aren't able to devote enough attention to their children. Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills. - Charles Platt

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and teh good student superior. - Marva Collins

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. - John Lubbock

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. - Solomon Ortiz 

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbour. Often times it is a teacher. - Joe Manhin

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. - Sidney Hook

Everyone you meet has something to teach you. - Unknown

Everything that happens to you is your tacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it. - Polly B. Berends

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to lean much. - W. C. Stellar

Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. - Bob Talbert

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. - Charles Kuralt

Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon. - Ann Lieberman

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

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. - Khalil Gibran

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. - Lily Tomlin

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you. - George Bernard Shaw

Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. - Nikos Kazantzakis

It is always the teacher who must learn the most ... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange. - Kim Stanley Robinson

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. - Bruce Lee

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. Curriculum is necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. - Carl Jung

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges. - Joyce Meyer

Teachers open the door, but you enter by yourself. - Unknown

Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating. - C.B. Neblette

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care. - Horace Mann

Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. - Unknown

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. - Helen Caldicott

Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning. If you do something and you find it a very satisfying experience then you want to do more of it. The great teachers somehow convey in their very attitude and their words and their actions and everything they do that this is an important thing you're learning. You end up wanting to do more of it and more of it and more of it. That's a real talent some people have to convey the importance of that and to reflect it back to the students. - Jeff Bezos

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. - Robert Brault

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see. - Alexandra Trentor

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. - Unknown

The calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other. - George Steiner

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’. - Dan Rather

The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves. - Joseph Campbell

The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't. - Jonathan Alter

The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present. - Confucius

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward

The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher’s actions. - Steven Brookfield

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province. - Albert Einstein

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. - C.S. Lewis

The teacher is a sympathizing guide whose familiarity with the subjects to be learned enables him to direct the learner's efforts, to save him from the waste of time and strength, or needless or insuperable difficulties, and to keep him from mistaking truth for error. But no aid of school or teacher can change nature's modes in mind work, or take from the learner the lordly prerogative and need for knowing for himself. - John Milton

The teachers who get “burned out” are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times. - Frank Smith

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

The teacher who transmits his meaning to the understanding of the other person, and impels that individual to action, he is the successful teacher. - Unknown

The teacher, however great, can never give his knowledge to the pupils …although …he can kindle the light if the oil is in the lamp. - Hazrat Inayat Khan

The teacher’s task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning. - Nathan M. Pusey

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just give you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. - Robert Frost

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds. - F. W. Robertson

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. - Amos Bronson Alcott

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. - Bertolt Brecht

There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher.’ My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I’ve honoured myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher. - Pat Conroy

These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets. - Craig Ferguson

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it. - Nicholas Sparks

Thought flows in terms of stories – stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best story tellers. We learn in the form of stories. - Frank Smith

To make oneself interesting artificially, that is, interesting to those who have no interest in us, is indeed a very difficult task; and to arrest the attention hour after hour, and year after year, not of one, but of a multitude of persons who have nothing in common with us, not even years, is indeed a superhuman undertaking. Yet this is the task of the teacher, or, as he would say, his "art": to make this assembly of children whom he has reduced to immobility by discipline follow him with their minds, understand what he says, and learn; an internal action, which he cannot govern, as he governs the position of their bodies, but which he must win by making himself interesting, and by maintaining this interest. - Maria Montessori

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. - Frank Herbert

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

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. - Karl A. Menninger

When you pay attention, everything is your teacher. - Ezra Bayd

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts.Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important. The heart is the only book worth reading. - Ajahn Chah

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. - Dr. Seuss

You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers. - J.D. Salingera