teacher quotes inspirational for students

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~Charles Dickens



Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them. ~Phil Pastoret



Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine. ~Austin O'Malley



You're no good unless you are a good assistant; and if you are, you're too good to be an assistant. ~Martin H. Fischer



We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet. ~Jeremy Rifkin, World Press Review, 30 December 1989



My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat. ~Leo Tolstoy



I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 19



When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. ~Bill Balance



History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. ~Charles Angoff



If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. ~Meg Greenfield



Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb



Envy slays itself by its own arrows. ~Author Unknown



Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. ~William Ewart Gladstone



The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. ~Ernest Newman



Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



People sometimes think I'm gay because I once played a gay in a movie. It's funny. Audiences don't think you're a murderer if you play a murderer, but they do think you're gay if you play a gay. ~Perry King



Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. ~Horace Walpole