Quotes About Motivation

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

I wanted to be a teacher.

During the day, I'm a business owner. I'm a teacher and a mentor.

I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!

Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.

My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

When I was in prep school, an English teacher said to me, 'Hemingway, I expect more from you!' And I said, 'Why, sir?'

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

I was in special ed, but I felt like I was a caged bird. I felt like I could do better. I made sure I mastered my special ed lessons. I made sure I listened to my teacher. I made sure I did my homework, but I had to do a little extra.

Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

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

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.