Quotes About Motivation

The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.

There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.

She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.

Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.

The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.

Teachers are about the brightest stars in our constellation.

Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.

I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.

If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.

If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now.

Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years.

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.

None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.