On
Teacher's Day we bring you some of the most thought-provoking quotes by famous
teachers from across the world. Read on and be inspired!
We begin with this quote from Dr
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, on whose birthday we celebrate Teacher's Day in
India. The philosopher President was first and foremost a teacher. He said:
"Wealth,
power and efficiency are the appurtenances of life and not life itself." -
Dr
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
"It
is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so
cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you
have failed by default." - JK Rowling
"Take
up one idea. Make that one idea your life -- think of it, dream of it, live on
that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of
that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to
success." - Swami
Vivekananda
"My
message, especially to young people, is to have courage to think differently,
courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the
impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities
that they must work towards." - India's "missile man" and
former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
"Education
is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your
self-confidence." - Pulitzer prize-winning author Robert Frost
"Never
be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no
one’s definition of your life; define yourself." - Pulitzer
prize-winning author Robert Frost
"You
can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." - Nobel laureate
Rabindranath Tagore
"Cultivation
of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence."
"Men
are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs
watering. Otherwise both will wither and die." - The architect
of the Indian Constitution Dr B R Ambedkar
In her commencement address to the
students at Harvard University, she emphasised that failure is a part of life
that nudges us to move in a new direction:
"It
doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point, you are bound to stumble.
If
you're constantly pushing yourself higher and higher, the law of averages
predicts that you will at some point fall.
And
when you do, I want you to remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
Failure
is just life trying to move us in another direction.
Now,
when you're down there in the hole, it looks like failure. When that moment
comes, it's okay to feel bad for a little while.
Give
yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost.
But
then, here's the key: Learn from every mistake, because every experience,
particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being
more who you are." - Media mogul and talk show host Oprah Winfrey
"Regard
your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for
credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it,
but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it
again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to
appear." - Socrates
"Keep
on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you
will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose -- not the one you
began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember." - Anne Sullivan
(Teacher to Helen Keller)
"We
need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive
fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to
work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realise their full
potential." -
American president Barack Obama
"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." - American
president Barack Obama
"Learn
from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not
to stop questioning." - Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein
"I
may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall
never do a man's work for less than a man's pay." - Clarissa
Barton was a famous American teacher and founder of the American Red Cross
"Excellence
is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we
have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted
rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a
habit." - Aristotle
(Greek philosopher and teacher of Alexander the Great)
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