Professions & Roles: Teacher Appreciation Quotes

Celebrate the commitment, creativity, and patience of educators with a thoughtful collection of teacher appreciation quotes. These selections highlight mentorship, lifelong learning, and the everyday impact teachers make in classrooms and communities. Use them to inspire notes of thanks, cards, ceremonies, and presentations, or to reflect on the influence of those who guide and encourage. Whether honoring a favorite teacher or recognizing a whole team, find concise, uplifting words that express gratitude with sincerity and warmth.

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"Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

Ann Bancroft

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

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

Ann Bancroft

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

Joyce A. Myers, Businessman

"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, Journalist

Dan Rather

"Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends"

Maria Callas, Musician

Maria Callas

"Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time"

Dave Eggers, Writer

Dave Eggers

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

Frederick Sanger

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

Sidney Hook, Philosopher

"Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"Teaching is not just a job, it is a calling. It takes a special kind of person to work with children who have special needs"

Mary MacCracken, Writer

Mary MacCracken

"Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task"

Haim Ginott, Teacher

Haim Ginott

"We love the precepts for the teacher's sake"

George Farquhar, Dramatist

"Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. 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, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

Andy Rooney

"I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

Phil McGraw

"Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting"

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

P. G. Wodehouse

"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well"

Alexander the Great, Leader

Alexander the Great

"I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher"

Temple Grandin, Educator

"I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

Sanford I. Weill

"I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration"

William Lyon Phelps, Educator

"Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest"

Erich Segal, Novelist

Erich Segal

"I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment"

James Levine, Musician

James Levine

"I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one"

Felix Adler, Educator

"I learned life from some good teachers"

Eddie Murray, Athlete

"Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation"

Conrad Burns, Politician

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

Kel Mitchell, Actor

"I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for"

Jon Hamm, Actor

"Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do"

Betty Buckley, Actress

"Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert"

Betty Buckley, Actress

"Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives"

Jon Porter, Politician

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