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A Select Collection of Teachers Quotes

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If you are a teacher, you could use some of these quotes to motivate your students. Whatever the context, the quotes seem quite relevant to today's youth. Make these quotes your treasure trove and you can't go wrong.

Unknown Author: Teachers Quotes
We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.

Aristotle: Teachers Quotes
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

David Bailey, British Photographer: Teachers Quotes
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heartthrobs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Teachers Quotes
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Henry David Thoreau: Teachers Quotes
What is once well done is done forever.

Blaine Lee: Teachers Quotes
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Thomas Carlyle: Teachers Quotes
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Stephen B. Leacock: Teachers Quotes
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

T. S. Eliot: Teachers Quotes
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

C. S. Lewis: Teachers Quotes
What you see and hear depends a great deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.

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