Teacher's Day quotes are the famous sayings about teachers. Teachers' Appreciation Quotations tell us what a teacher is really all about.

Read some well-known Quotations for Teacher's Day.
-- A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. --Author Unknown
-- 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
-- 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
-- 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 mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. --William Arthur Ward
--- A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. --Author Unknown
-- 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
--- Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. --Author Unknown
--- The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. --Author Unknown
""A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."" --Henry Brooks Adams
--- ""Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth."" --Helen Caldicott, author and peace activist
---- Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher."" --Japanese proverb -- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. --Aristotle
-- A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money --Author unknown