Teaching Quotes

Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!

~ Gerry Abbey

As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging chains and mixed with the rumbling mower and the buzzing insects.

~ Gerry Abbey

Something is reflecting our thoughts back to us in obvious and not so obvious ways.

~ Bryant Mcgill

There is no such thing as perfection and it is okay for you to have negative thoughts.

~ Bryant Mcgill

One positive thought will shift the entire world under your feet.

~ Bryant Mcgill

There is no higher calling than service to your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few. Cultivate this gift, and give it away.

~ Chris Matakas

Preaching vs Teaching:The difference between preaching and teaching: one makes you feel good, the other makes you grow.

~ T.f. Hodge

Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them.

~ Bryant Mcgill

One of the fastest ways you can profoundly change your life is to rid yourself of toxic people.

~ Bryant Mcgill

This is your life and you have the right and responsibility to make good decisions for yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You must clear out what you don't want, to make room for what you do want to arrive.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Balance in life is the key to everything.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Sometimes you have to get away from what you know to discover what you don't know.

~ Bryant Mcgill

If you make it right with yourself, it will be right with the whole world.

~ Bryant Mcgill

All of life and history is holding you on its shoulders so you can stretch one atom further.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You are your own essential ally. Get right with yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Any good is good enough.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Brute force will sometimes get you through a challenge, but usually not without hurting and depleting yourself in the process.

~ Bryant Mcgill

What we want for others doesn't work unless they want it for themselves.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The strongest and most mysterious weeds often have things to teach us.

~ F.t. Mckinstry

Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield. If all you do is to give them a faultless and complete and uninhabited architectural masterpiece, then you do not help them to become builders of their own.

~ Carl-Gustaf Rossby

When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.

~ Shannon L. Alder

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.

~ Anna Quindlen

If you want meaning in your life you must give your life meaning.

~ Bryant Mcgill

watch out for schools that promise your kids will experience success. I'm teaching Plato's Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won the argument every time.

~ David Kahn

You have to get clear in your present life — clear of the junk from your past.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.

~ Criss Jami

... because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically, says, You feel what, Tiny?.

~ John Green

The more you teach your people to not need you, the greater your value.

~ John Stahl-Wert

Change isn't always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance – usually about ourselves – and we become better people for it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

~ Stephen R. Lawhead

For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.

~ Baltasar Gracián

Many people are not ready to pay for advice they can use, so the few that do, break boundaries and soar higher.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

When someone is attacking you, they are coming to you for advice.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.

~ J.c. Mckeown

If you avoid your truthful emotions and pain you will implode and contract into a diminished and feeble state.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.

~ David Berliner

People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're too stupid to realize they ought to be living in the city.

~ Garret Keizer

Comport yourself with grace under pressure.

~ Bryant Mcgill