Teachers Day greeting cards messages

Use these teacher's appreciation quotes to convey your expressions and gratitude to your favourite teacher and wish them a very happy Teacher's Day!

"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple."
- Amos Bronson Alcott
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.
- Author UnknownThe teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
- Kahlil Gibran
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
- Maria MontessoriA good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
- Unknown Author -
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
- Unknown Author -
A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.
- Unknown Author -
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.
- Unknown Author -
I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
Hippocrates
Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
- Helen Caldicott
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
Unknown AuthorEducation is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Leading a child to learning's treasures, gives a teacher untold pleasures
Anonymous
Teachers don't impact for a year, but for a lifetime.
Anonymous
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Cicero
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."
- Jacques Barzun
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
- Bob Talbert
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
- Karl Menninger
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.
- eugene P. Bertin
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
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
- Jacques Barzun
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.