Inspirational Quotes for Educators

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle

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 and for the soul of the child. — Carl Jung

Power must be understood as a tool to serve others, not as a tool to serve yourself. — President Laura Chinchilla, Costa Rica

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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. — Nelson Mandela

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. — John F. Kennedy

It is today we must create the world of the future. — Eleanor Roosevelt

One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm. — Charles Schwab

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date. — Ann Richards

There can be no reform without reflection. — Mark Twain

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.” — William A. Foster

If you get, give. If you learn, teach. — Maya Angelou

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. — President Obama

The only thing better than education is more education. —  Agnes E. Benedict

"The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth." — Dan Rather