Teacher Appreciation Sayings and Quotes

Teachers spark our curiosity and instill a hunger for knowledge at a young age. The job is far from easy, and often goes without much appreciation. Show an educator how much you care with the collection of wise and insightful teacher appreciation quotes below.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. Jacques Barzun
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher. Maria Montessori
If students don't feel teacher appreciation, their whole education has failed. Michael Balkers
Delightful task! To rear the tender thought. To teach the young idea how to shoot. James Thomson
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C.S. Lewis
Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around. Helen Peters
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. James A. Garfield
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. Cynthia Ozick
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. William Shakespeare
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. Charles Kuralt
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert M. Hutchins
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. Bob Talbert
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G.K. Chesterton
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. Karl Menninger
Teach the children so that it will not be necessary to teach the adults. Abraham Lincoln
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. Voltaire
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. William Arthur Ward
Good great teachers empathize with kids, respect them and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon. Ann Lieberman
Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own. Nikos Kazantzakis
If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important. Barbara Colorose
I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs. Lin Yutang
I put the relation of a fine teacher to a student just below the relation of a mother to a son. Thomas Wolfe
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. Tracy Chapman
I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom. Author Unknown
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. Althea Gibson
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burdens of another. Author Unknown
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. Samuel Johnson