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Skypilot could not help but hope that the song of the moon--the song of God's miraculous firmament--might reach her tonight and enable her to feel the reality of Christ's love and sacrifice.
— Serena B. Miller, Under a Blackberry Moon
She was smiling as she imagined herself as one more star in the sea of millions, and her body decided it had had enough, and she felt the exact moment when her power source gave up and the hum of electricity extinguished.But she was already vast and bright and endless.
— Marissa Meyer, The Little Android
The flowers left thick at nightfall in the woodThis Eastertide call into mind the men,Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, shouldHave gathered them and will do never again.
— Edward Thomas
Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora--bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves. Nora: But hundreds of thousands of women have done!
— Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
God's glory in our lives has little to do with our sacrifice and everything to do with our surrender.
— Alisa Hope Wagner, Eve of Awakening
Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God- the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God. Where are these responsible people?
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Giving out of your surplus does not make you generous, it makes your selfishness more tolerable! Giving while you are lacking is what pleases the Lord.
— William Branks
Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.
— Gabrielle Zevin, Because It Is My Blood
If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.
— Jim Rohn
My heart is eternally yours, but my soul will always be hell bound.
— Reyna Pryde, Bound by Sacrifice
The difference between the Haves and Have-nots? The will to sacrifice and to do what others won't.... Very simple.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
No it was my choice. It's what I wanted to do. And I knew they'd probably send me to Iraq. It's not like anybody lied to me."She groans. "Billy, all these mofos ever do is lie. You think if they halfway told the truth we'd even be in a fucking war? You know what I think, I think we don't deserve to have you guys die for us. No country that lets It's leaders lie like that deserves a single soldier to die for it.
— Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
By so giving up, of course, it renews itself- that is the secret
— Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch
God's love grounds me while His mystery confounds me. He is a personal yet all-powerful
—  in me yet around me
My palm presses against his cool cheek as I stare intently at him, willing him to understand, “I couldn’t have forgiven myself, couldn’t have gone on knowing I’d let you suffer when it was in my power to take that pain away.” I pause to smile sadly at him, “Anyway, it’s done now.”He shakes his head in one last denial but there’s nothing he can do. Crimson tears fill his eyes again as he whispers softly, “Kiss me?
— Angela Louise McGurk, Absolution
I dun knw things get trappedIn my mindThen itss smethin That I wanna find I dun get the answer Is there anyone listenin to me No one there to seeTo see the pain and the agony Inside ur beautiful heartTo see that u kissed the painAnd kicked everythin apart
— B. Bhardwaz
Positive or Negative, doesn't MATTER - Sacrifice always PAY-BACK!!!
— Umakant
How often in life do people make that awful sacrifice, that murder of possibilities?
— Andrew Sean Greer, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
When we're not following God's will, our sacrifices aren't acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken before Him, walk with Him, know Him, and obey Him.
— Sarah Sundin, A Distant Melody
When civilians are not asked to pay any price, it's easy to be at war - not just to intervene in a foreign land in the first place, but to keep on fighting there. The justifications for staying at war don't have to be particularly rational or cogently argued when so few Americans are making the sacrifice that it takes to stay.
— Rachel Maddow, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
Love is about giving, about caring for the other person's welfare. Love is treating someone, in the Kantian sense, never as a means but as an end in themselves. Love is sacrifice, love is something you work at, something you build like a house or tend like a plant, brick by brick, drop by drop, day by day. Nonsense. Old wives' tales, old husbands' tales. That is affection they are talking about, that is companionship, that is charity, that is tickets for the Cancer Research Ball. You must ask the young if you want to know what love is. Only they are deep enough in it to describe. We older ones have clues and simulacra, we base our judgement, like pathologists do, on the dents and scars and sediments of hearts long kept in formaldehyde. It is the pulsing heart you want to probe: the pulsing, beating, leaping, dipping, fluttering heart of a seventeen-year-old.
— A.P., Sabine
Listen ... The universe is full of creatures that can get inside your soul. Things that try to take away the very things that make you who you are, who try to reshape you for their own ends, who want to eat you like a piece of fruit and spit out the seeds. It's Turtles all the way down. Are you listening? ... Listen, Chris. The Turtles don't deserve your life. You mustn't let them have you. I know them too well, Chris. They've touched me, infected me, possessed me. I've felt their contamination. I've been on their altars. Listen to me, Chris. They don't have the right ... Not even if they love you ... Not even if they're a god.
— Kate Orman, Doctor Who: Sleepy
My sister is there with, probably, the most dangerous people on this city! You have a little sister?”“No.”“Then you don’t have any right to tell me what I suposse to sacrifice if it’s for my sister’s sake!”“Owen...”“She’s the only younger sibling I have. If something happens to her, I don’t see any reason why should I keep alive on this freaking Earth!
— Rea Lidde, Mission Possible, But Difficult Task
Who knows not sacrifice may never gain freedom.
— Ogwo David Emenike
These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered himself for one without any lot. All else were struck with admiration for the nobleness and with love for the goodness of the act.
— Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives, Vol 1
The thing about a marine is that they can be the nicest men and women you will ever meet, but when it comes to their duty there are none fiercer.
— Joshua Mcnutt, The Licen Sepulcher
His own true hidden reality that he had desired to know grew palpable, recognizable. It seemed to him just this: a great, glad, abounding hope that he had saved his brother; too expansive to be contained by the limited form of a sole man, it yearned for a new embodiment infinite as the stars.What did it matter to that true reality that the man's brain shrank, shrank, till it was nothing; that the man's body could not retain the huge pain of his heart, and heaved it out through the red exit riven at the neck: that hurtling blackness blotted out forever the man's sight, hearing, sense?
— Clemence Housman, The Were-Wolf
Sacrifices will make you a martyr, victories will make you a hero.
— Amit Kalantri
I can be anything – and nothing, and everything at the same time. It all depends on the role I am in.
— Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.
— Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake.
— Clare Mulley, The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family.
— Jessica Fortunato, Sacrifice
The memories seem to come in layers. For example, the first memory might be of incest; then they remember robes and candles; next they realize that their father or mother or both were present when they were being abused. Another layer will be the memory of seeing other people hurt and even killed. Then they remember having seen babies killed. Another layer is realizing that they participated in the sacrifices. One of the most painful memories may be that they even sacrificed their own baby. With each layer of memory comes another set of problems with which they must deal.— Glenn L. Pace; "Ritualistic Child Abuse," memo
— Glenn L. Pace
So this was it, she thought. So many times she'd wondered. True sacrifice was the surrender of one sacred thing in favor of keeping another. No matter how prudent or cautious one was, in the end something precious was lost. Whether the claim was in the name of family or duty or honor or truth, it exacted a terrible price. To her dismay, she did not feel the pride or pleasure that Bledig had claimed when he spoke of the sacrifices he had made for her and their children. For Alwen, sacrifice brought grief and guilt, and an unbearable sense of uncertainty.
— Roberta Trahan, The Well of Tears
The sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Her name is Emmilina. She is quite eccentric and was Thomas’s best friend.
— Jessica Fortunato, Sacrifice
Sacrifice: That's what makes our mosaic so beautiful and rich.
— Lee Myung-Bak, The Uncharted Path: The Autobiography of Lee Myung-Bak
I screeched with frustration, which in hindsight is never okay when there are people trying to kill you.
— Jessica Fortunato, Sacrifice
I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things.But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping.
— Julio Alexi Genao, When You Were Pixels
He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves.
— Christopher Hopper
And Pantalaimon didn't ask why, because he knew; and he didn't ask whether Lyra loved Roger more than him, because he knew the true answer to that, too. And he knew that if he spoke, she wouldn't be able to resist; so the dæmon held himself quiet so as not to distress the human who was abandoning him, and now they were both pretending that it wouldn't hurt, it wouldn't be long before they were together again, it was all for the best. But Will knew that the little girl was tearing her heart out of her breast.
— Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
He turns to leave, stops, looks back at me. "Just so you know: What you did for Victor means a lot to us. You could have left him to die.""No, Richard, I couldn't."I see in his eyes that he understands. I didn't save Victor because I knew that his being alive was best for Denver. I gave him my blood because I didn't want to live in a world without him in it.
— J.A. London, Blood-Kissed Sky
The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called "faith." What man, who ever thinks, can believe that blood can appease God? And yet, our entire system of religion is based upon that belief. The Jews pacified Jehovah with the blood of animals, and according to the Christian system, the blood of Jesus softened the heart of God a little, and rendered possible the salvation of a fortunate few. It is hard to conceive how the human mind can give assent to such terrible ideas, or how any sane man can read the Bible and still believe in the doctrine of inspiration.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, The Gods and Other Lectures
I am just going outside and may be some time." Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who commanded the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole 1911/12.
— Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates
...my mind drifted to my family. I thought about how I had the opportunity to serve them. I didn’t have to carry them across a freezing river in the middle of a snowstorm or give them my food when they didn’t have enough. There would be other streams they would need help to cross, and I’d be there for them, always and in whatever way they needed me.
— Mike Ericksen, Upon Destiny's Song
I’m nothing, here. A lowly surveillance analyst. Being the hero could have meant something good for me. Could have changed my whole
— Julio Alexi Genao, When You Were Pixels
War is hell, but sometimes in the midst of that hell men do things that heaven itself must be proud of. A hand grenade is hurled into a group of men. One of the men throws himself on top of it, making his body a living shield. In the burst of wild fire he dies, and the others live. Heroism is only a word, often a phony one. This is an action for which there is no good word because we can hardly even imagine it, let alone give it its proper name. Very literally, one man takes death into his bowels, takes fire into his own sweet flesh, so that the other men can take life, some of them men he hardly knows.
— Frederick Buechner, The Hungering Dark
Use art, be creative. No more war. No more children dying. A pawn that does not move in chess upsets the game. I know there is love in the world still and that is what i wish to surround myself with. Sacrifice your time and energy into something positive instead of the negative and you will see that change around you.
— Lorin Morgan-Richards
Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.
— William Hazlitt, Liber Amoris, Or, The New Pygmalion
They left their encampment with dirt-covered linen strewn about the abandoned grounds amongst clothes, shoes, children’s toys and other discarded belongings. The handcart wheels crunched over them, and the dry wheels screamed as the Willie Company started for Zion.
— Sage Steadman, Upon Destiny's Song
If God himself can't save this world without sacrifice... how can we?
— Matthew Tysz, The Last City of America
A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.
— Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence
To follow Christ requires a downward career track that does not depend on dollars or status. Instead, what matters is Christ.
— Dillon Burroughs, Thirst No More: A One-Year Devotional Journey
Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.
— Melissa de la Cruz, Gates of Paradise
Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.
— Bryan Davis, Liberator
...We understood nothing at all. Not what it meant to wish for a miracle... nor its price.
— Magica Quartet, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Vol. 01
We all of us die, Miss Smallwood,' he interrupted. 'But we don't all of us make our lives count for something. How much better to die saving another soul than to stand safe on shore and do nothing while others perish?
— Julie Klassen, The Tutor's Daughter
She had been wrong in thinking Christ had been called up against his will to fight in a war. He didn't look - in spite of the crown of thorns - like someone making a sacrifice. Or even like someone determined to "do his bit". He looked instead like Marjorie had looked telling Polly she'd joined the Nursing Service, like Mr Humphreys had looked filling buckets with water and sand to save Saint Paul's, like Miss Laburnum had looked that day she came to Townsend Brothers with the coats. He looked like Captain Faulknor must have looked, lashing the ships together. Like Ernest Shackleton, setting out in that tiny boat across icy seas. Like Colin helping Mr Dunworthy across the wreckage.He looked ... contented. As if he was where he wanted to be, doing what he wanted 
— Connie Willis, All Clear
People don't want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they're worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it's not that people are always worth it, it's that love is.
— Donna Lynn Hope
I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
True love is sacrifice. It is in giving, not in getting; in losing, not in gaining; in realizing, not in possessing, that we love!
— J.P. Vaswani
The way I see Jesus has not changed much at all since I was a child, but my imprisonment and all that followed made me love Him even more. His being the Son of God makes sense to me, because I believe God to be loving, just, forgiving, and merciful. I also believe that He respects free will. After all, He has given it to us so that we can choose to love or hate Him, do good or evil. But is it fair for a loving God to sit on His throne in Heaven and let us struggle and suffer on our own? Would any good father abandon His children this way? It makes perfect sense to me that God decided to come among us, live like us, and die a horribly painful death after being tortured. This is a God I can love with all my heart. A God who sets an example. A God who has bled and whose heart has been broken. This is who Jesus is to me. I don't pretend that I understand the Holy Trinity. But I understand love and sacrifice. I understand faithfulness.
— Marina Nemat, After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed
Achan gritted his teeth and recalled Sir Eagan's words. Love was not taking because you wanted, he'd said. Love was sacrifice.
— Jill Williamson, From Darkness Won
He remembered the darkness and despair she'd suffered during her long years as a prisoner, but he also recalled the deep, unquenchable joy she took from the world around her; and he knew that given the choice, Wilamena would suffer all she had and more rather than sacrifice one day of being alive.It was just as his father had said. She chose life, all of it.
— John J. Stephens, The Fire Chronicle
France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.
— Laurie Lee, I Can't Stay Long
It’s not easy to be God.
— Péter Zilahy, The Last Window-Giraffe: A Picture Dictionary for the over Fives
I can't - is sacrificing your potential...
— Gino Norris, Stress Diary Journal
Blood was the mortar that cemented the kingdom
— Jocelyn  Murray, The Gilded Mirror: Constantinople
You think me noble?” She rolled to her side facing him. “Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?
— Jessica Fortunato, The Sin Collector: Thomas
Stained-glass windows glowed faintly in the moonlight streaming through, illuminating the sculpture of Christ on the cross that hung above the altar. It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Then the sculpture seemed to move, and Christ’s body twisted on the cross to look directly at him. ...Jesus, the son of God and his saviour, seemed be smiling at him.
— Phillip W. Simpson, Rapture
mostly we've had to found ways to amuse ourselves.""Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?"Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice."He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out.Then they both let go. laughing."Naw," Plight said, we just play board games."..."she fell for it!" gasped Lenka. "She fell for the human sacrifice bit!
— Derek Landy, Kingdom of the Wicked
...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.
— Andy Stanley, Fields Of Gold
If I – as a beneficiary of that exact formula – will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by that precise familial structure, will the social conservatives please (for once!) concede that this arrangement has always put a disproportionately cumbersome burden on women? Such a system demands that mothers become selfless to the point of near invisibility in order to construct these exemplary encironments for their families. And might those same social conservatives – instead of just praising mothers as “sacred” and “noble” – be willing to someday join a larger conversation about how we might work together as a society to construct a world where healthy children can be raised and healthy families can prosper without women have to scrape bare the walls of their own souls to do so?
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Perfect crime,' he said softly. 'Yes?' 'Persuade an innocent, idealistic young girl that the future of the human race depends on her sacrificing her own life. She will come into hospital as trustingly as a lamb to the slaughter. She will welcome the implantation of a baby that will kill her. She'll lie there while her brain is destroyed for nine whole months, and no police will arrest you, no court will judge you, you'll get away scot free. At the end of nine months she'll be taken off life support and she'll be completely dead. And no one will be blamed.
— Jane Rogers, The Testament of Jessie Lamb
Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.
— Jennifer Paynter, Mary Bennet
Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices Ihad decided upon, there is always left a trace of envyfor those who have triumphed in the melancholystruggle for literary supremacy
— Paul Bourget
Don't hate me forever, Arty," whispered Holly. "I couldn't bear that.
— Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian
Artemis looked at Holly and felt a tremendous affection for her... he could properly appreciate how fierce and beautiful his best friend was...She is truly magical, thought Artemis. Perhaps her qualities are more obvious to me now that I have decided to sacrifice myself.
— Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian
How could you...? How?""Logically you have no right to be angry. I simply followed your l
— Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian
In every relationship one must sacrifice to show thy love. Are you willing to make sacrifices for someone you love?
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
Right now he was nothing but a physically hurt man who had been through hell and back, clinging to his promise. “We be... together. More than just... few... hours. Wanna die... with you. Not... alone.” Fought to stay awake, needed to spend every second with Vadim while he could.Vadim kissed that hand again, looked up. “We won’t die. We'll never die. I promise. He’d promise anything, meant it, would die defending this man, would live and die and suffer for him.
— Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces - Soldiers
Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything...away.
— Dave Matthes, In This House, We Lived, and We Died
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
— Joseph de Maistre
The pain we feel in separation is the price we pay for love.
— Hatef Mokhtar, The Red Wrath - A Journey Between Two Destinies
Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.
— Fulton J. Sheen
If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they’d love you more.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
...no one has ever doubted you would die for those you love ... the question then becomes would you live?
— Elizabeth Isaacs, The Secret of the Keepers: Kailmeyra's Strength
Cry no tears for us, my friend.” I pry at her fingers, panicking to be released in fear that she may drag me into death with her. She croaks again, “Lend no aches to the dreams of yesterday.” From the corpse of Warren, his greyish gums smack from whatever goo has settled in his mouth, “Allow the tide sweep free the bay.” Then together they sing in zombie choir, “And home the ships sailing send.
— Nathan Reese Maher
Success never goes on sale, but most spend their whole life dickering over the cost, never making the purchase.
— Orrin Woodward
That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person had found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder, more careful, more attentive to one another.
— Lois Lowry
[Connor, prepared to sacrifice himself to save Sarah]God, I pray, give me the strength to live the next hour well.
— Pamela Clare, Defiant
I stopped paying the price for success and started enjoying the price for success.
— Orrin Woodward
Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery, the sight of which is so revolting to our delicacy. Peoples separated from the Roman religion have imitated but imperfectly so generous a charity.
— Voltaire
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
— Albert Einstein
I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.
— Haim G. Ginott
Experience teaches only the teachable.
— Aldous Huxley
Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.
— John Wooden
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
— Elbert Hubbard
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
— Jane Smiley
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
— George Bernard Shaw
I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives.
— Seymour Simon
Evil prevails when good people do nothing.
— Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself.
— Dave Cullen, Columbine
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
— Lee Iacocca
You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.
— Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
— Anatole France
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
— Ben Sweetland
The main reason I became a teacher is that I like being the first one to introduce kids to words and music and people and numbers and concepts and idea that they have never heard about or thought about before. I like being the first one to tell them about Long John Silver and negative numbers and Beethoven and alliteration and "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" and similes and right angles and Ebenezer Scrooge. . . Just think about what you know today. You read. You write. You work with numbers. You solve problems. We take all these things for granted. But of course you haven't always read. You haven't always known how to write. You weren't born knowing how to subtract 199 from 600. Someone showed you. There was a moment when you moved from not knowing to knowing, from not understanding to understanding. That's why I became a teacher.
— Phillip Done, 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny: Life Lessons from Teaching
So you'll teach me?" Val asked.Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you desire.""I don't want to be - ," she started, but he held up his hand."I know you're very brave," he said."Or st
— Holly Black, Valiant
His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.
— Robert A. Heinlein
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
— Peter F. Drucker
We must teach our girls that if they speak their mind, they can create the world they want to see. (145)
— Robyn Silverman, Good Girls Don't Get Fat: How Weight Obsession Is Messing Up Our Girls and How We Can Help Them Thrive Despite It
The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.
— George Steiner, Lessons of the Masters
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
— Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes
People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.
— John Fowles, The Collector
My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.
— David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water. If we put it on a rock in the sunshine, it will soon evaporate. If we put it in the ocean, however, it will never be lost. Thus the wish is made that we not keep the teachings to ourselves but to use them to benefit others.
— Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
— Marian Wright Edelman
To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out. 
— Robertson Davies, The Rebel Angels
Then said a teacher , speak to us of teaching . And he said :The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple among his followers gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.The astronomer may spaeak to you of his understanding of space , but he cannot give you his understanding.The musician may sing to you of the rythem which is in all space , but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rythem nor the voice that echoes it .And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure , but he cannot conduct you thither .For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man .
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
I'll always choose a teacher with enthusiasm and weak technique over one with brilliant strategies but who is just punching the clock. Why? An enthusiastic teacher can learn technique, but it is almost impossible to light a fire inside the charred heart of a burned-out teacher.
— Dave Burgess, Teach Like a Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life As an Educator
Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand. If you don't have the starch to stand up in class and admit what you don't understand, then I don't have the time to explain it to you. If you don't have a policy against nonsense you can wind up with a dozen timid little rabbits lined up in the hall outside your office, all waiting to whisper the same imbecilic question in your ear.
— Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were people who finally were the most popular at school.
— Victoria Kahler, Their Friend Scarlet
Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.
— Jacques Rancière
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— Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
— Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
...as the old saying goes: if you teach a man to fish, he will feed himself for a lifetime. But if you just give him a fishing pole, he’ll have to teach himself.
— Zechariah Barrett
Teaching yoga itself is great karma yoga, because it reconnects people to the source.
— Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being
If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into the classroom ten minutes late, week after week, you need to resign. You wouldn't come in late on your job all the time, but I venture to guess that some of you do it on Sunday.
— Bill Wilson, Christianity in the Crosshairs: Real Solutions Discovered in the Line of Fire
It's why I went into teaching in the first place. I like the sound of my own voice. Well that, and I am addicted to the smell of chalk and white-board markers.
— Mercy Celeste, Wicked Game
The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, "How am I doing?" and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing?
— Esmé Raji Codell
Teachers, you don't teach a subject, you teach a child.
— Deepa Bhushan
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
— Berenice Abbott
Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.
— Deborah Wiles, Countdown
The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.
— Tanith Lee, Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas
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— Brian Daniel
As a Jew, I had no desire to challenge my childhood prejudice. But as a teacher, I could not do otherwise.
— Sondra Perl, On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate
Teachers are mind engineers! Teachers are life directors! Don’t ever undermine a teacher!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I noticed that the [drawing] teacher didn't tell people much... Instead, he tried to inspire us to experiment with new approaches. I thought of how we teach physics: We have so many techniques - so many mathematical methods - that we never stop telling the students how to do things. On the other hand, the drawing teacher is afraid to tell you anything. If your lines are very heavy, the teacher can't say, "Your lines are too heavy." because *some* artist has figured out a way of making great pictures using heavy lines. The teacher doesn't want to push you in some particular direction. So the drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.
— Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
teachers who make lessons interesting get the attention of students
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I realized I was a teacher when I felt warm during class and got up to open the door. Later on there was noise in the hallway, so I got up and shut it. Students can't open and close the door whenever they feel like it.
— David Sedaris, Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002
Adrienne started teaching a few months ago in Denver and wrote that it leaves you with a constant feeling of deceiving people. That you know nothing they don't, or couldn't learn on their own if they cared to.
— David Sedaris, Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002
Would it not therefore be wiser in moral concerns to acquiesce in the judgement of common reason, or at most only to call in philosophy for the purpose of rendering the system of morals more complete and intelligible, and its rules more convenient for use (especially for disputation), but not so as to draw off the common understanding from its happy simplicity, or to bring it by means of philosophy into a new path of inquiry and instruction?
— Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.
— E.R. Braithwaite, To Sir, With Love
Teachers are often rightly praised for all they do for our children. But there are others out there who are working to make the youth of today a happy and productive generation of tomorrow. And I'm proud to say I'm one of these "others" providing a positive environment for many wonderful children who are full of promise.
— Jack Canfield, Carrie O'Maley
Let your ego grow enough to teach but not enough to dictate.
— Ben Tolosa, Masterplan Your Success
... Let me start with the top mistakes that teachers make. Some of these mistakes are forced on teachers by a badly designed education system, and some are ones that teachers make no matter what they are teaching or which system they are teaching in. Some of these are less than obvious, so let's consider them one-by-one.1. Assuming that there is some kind of learning, other than learning by doing.2. Believing that a teacher's job is assessment.3. Thinking there is something that everyone must know in order to proceed.4. Thinking that students are not worried about the purpose of what they are being taught.5. Thinking that studying can replace repeated practice as a key learning technique.6. Thinking that because students have chosen to take your course, they have an interest in learning what you plan to teach them.7. Correcting a student who is doing something wrong by telling them what to do instead.8. Thinking that a student remembers what you just taught him.
— Roger Schank
A classroom is like a Greenhouse where the teacher must provide essential amenities like knowledge and life-skill with patience and empathy, control temperatures and provide adequate ventilation to release unwanted energies for everyone and everything to bloom.
— Kavita Bhupta Ghosh, Wanted Back-Bencher and Last-Ranker Teacher
You can never stop being a teacher. It is the core responsibility of a leader.
— Alex Malley, The Naked CEO: The Truth You Need to Build a Big Life
Though the legs of a football coach are never so active on the field of play during playing time, his mind is the best or worst player on the pitch!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Though the legs of a football coach are never so active on the field of play during playing time, his mind is the best or worse player on the pitch!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
How can I teach my children not to lie but always speak the truth when now people are fine with "alternative facts"?
— Maria Nieves
Personal destiny is discovered through teachings
— Sunday Adelaja
What you reveal shows the essence of your teaching
— Sunday Adelaja
Active scholars are uniquely attracted by a high-quality graduate school of arts and sciences. Faculty members consider the teaching and training of new generations of graduate students as their highest calling. They believe that working with graduate students maintains and develops their professional skills more effectively than any other activity. It may be the main reason for the great attraction of academic jobs. Laboratory scientists have told me that the opportunity to work with graduate students keeps them in the university. For them, other options would center on research in commercial laboratories, but there the principal investigator would be assisted by technicians, and that is considered a far less creative interaction.
— Henry Rosovsky, The University: An Owner's Manual
To redeem the influential sphere of the government is to act based on the teaching received
— Sunday Adelaja
A question asked in earnest, deserves an earnest answer.
— Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
My students still don't know what they will never be. Their hope is so bright I can almost see it.I used to value the truth of whether this student or that one would achieve the desired thing. I don't value that truth anymore as much as I value their untested hope. I don't care that one in two hundred of them will ever become what they feel they must become. I care only that I am able to witness their faith in what's coming next.I no longer believe in anything other than the middle, but my students still believe in beginnings. Ask them, and they will tell you that everything is about to start in just a moment, just one more moment.
— Sarah Manguso, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
Camillo always say we are on earth to learn. I think I want to teach. I want to teach history so that the world does not have to repeat our mistakes.
— Amy Harmon, From Sand and Ash
I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.
— Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
To keep up interest in a subject, a teenager has to enjoy working in it. If the teacher makes the task of learning excessively difficult, the student will feel too frustrated and anxious to really get into it and enjoy it for its own sake. If the teacher makes learning too easy, the student will get bored and lose interest. The teacher has the difficult task of finding the right balance between the challenges he or she gives and the students' skills, so that enjoyment and the desire to learn more result.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Teaching is not about how we see things, it is about how children see things.
— Kavita Bhupta Ghosh, Wanted Back-Bencher and Last-Ranker Teacher
Henry David Thoreau, Susan B. Anthony, W. E. B. DuBois, and Lyndon B. Johnson are just a few of the famous Americans who taught. They resisted the fantasy of educators as saints or saviors, and understood teaching as a job in which the potential for children’s intellectual transcendence and social mobility, though always present, is limited by real-world concerns such as poor training, low pay, inadequate supplies, inept administration, and impoverished students and families. These teachers’ stories, and those of less well-known teachers, propel this history forward and help us understand why American teaching has evolved into such a peculiar profession, one attacked and admired in equal proportion.
— Dana Goldstein, The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Even we set aside the nearly 50 percent of all beginner teachers who choose to leave the profession within five years—and ignore the evidence that those who leave are worse performers than those who stay—it is unclear whether teachers are formally terminated for poor performance any less frequently than are other workers.
— Dana Goldstein, The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
School is the worst choice, it teach us that we can focus on a lot of stuff at first view it's like preparing to work hard as a villager use to do or somebody else with such type hard work. From other it's selfish and from last it's full of obstacles...
— Deyth Banger
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
— John Wooden
To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.
— Frank McCourt, Teacher Man
I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.
— Frank McCourt, Teacher Man
You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you?
— Frank McCourt, Teacher Man
Teaching is bringing the news.
— Frank McCourt, Teacher Man
Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.
— Frank McCourt, Teacher Man
She could not think what it would be to teach school twelve miles away from home, along among strangers. The less she thought of it the better, for she must go, and she must meet whatever happened as it came. "Now Mary can have everting she needs, and she can come home this next summer," she said. "Oh, Pa, do you think I - I can teach school?" "I do, Laura," said Pa. "I am sure of it.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie
The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
Everything in my head was secondhand, too: Catholicism; Ireland's sad history, a litany of suffering and martyrdom drummed into me by priests, schoolmasters and parents who knew no better.
— Frank McCourt, Teacher Man
I consider the two years in Beaufort when I taught high school as perhaps the happiest time of my life. My attraction to melodrama and suffering had not yet overwhelmed me, but signs of it were surfacing. No one had warned me that a teacher could fall so completely in love with his students that graduation seemed like the death of a small civilization.
— Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
There's something hostile about the way they enter and leave the room that tells you what they think of you. It could be your imagination and you try to figure out what will bring them over to your side. You try lessons that worked with other classes but even that doesn't help and it's because of that chemistry. They know when they have you on the run. They have instincts that detect your frustrations.
— Frank McCourt, Teacher Man
They look back and relixe that they learned much about Christian behavior an churchy experiences, but whatever they learned about Jesus didn't really change them. They never saw him so strikingly that he became their one, overriding hope and their greatest love. They were never convinced that Jesus is better - a zillion times better - than anything and everything else. Our goal must be for kids to catch this rock-their-world vision of Jesus.
— Jack Klumpenhower, Show Them Jesus: Teaching the Gospel to Kids
Also, I am not sure what you are teaching in your classroom, but Seb came home the other week talking about a healthy eating pyramid. I had to explain to him that pyramids are made of stone and therefore not edible, so I would appreciate your not filling his head with these fanciful notions.
— David Thorne, The Internet is a Playground