Top 1200 Spiritual Teachers Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me 'Duck.'

It's tempting to think that decisions that are not life-and-death are therefore unimportant, and that the little compromises we make don't matter to our bottom line or our spiritual selves. How many of us are tempted, in business, to make a less-than-ethical decision? To appropriate someone else's idea or fudge some numbers? We have to remember that maintaining our ethical and spiritual selves is absolutely linked with achieving the degree of success we're working toward.

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything that you do in life is in preparation for your great meeting. This great meeting is your meeting with your Lord, which is absolutely inevitable.

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world.

Students and teachers should be sensitive towards the themes of empowerment of the marginalised.

I've seen a lot of teachers come and go, and you do three or four years, and it's exhausting.

A lot of my family were teachers, so that's what I always thought I'd end up being.

My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies.

One of my acting teachers once said that rejection is God's protection. There's something in it.

When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.

Children need teachers who have stars in their eyes themselves and who treat them with respect.

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda. The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis.

Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

I respect public employees and school teachers. They deserve a secure retirement.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

'Teachers' is in no way a realistic soap; we're not trying to do that, which is why we never do 'issues.'

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

The best teachers are those who keep students motivated, challenged and flourishing.

I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.

A Warrior knows that his best teachers are the people whom he shares the battlefield.

Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves

The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

Teachers have always said my only strength is talking and that I talk very fast.

Listen to these words of [apostle] Paul: "We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness that's in high places." It's in "high places" that the plot against Black and Brown, and poor White is going on; it's spiritual wickedness that's way up in the ruling classes of religious people who don't want to see the little man rise. It's the principalities and the powers.

Human sexuality includes more than hormones, organs, and orgasms; it runs through the psychic and spiritual ranges of our lives. We experience our sexuality on the spiritual level as a yearning for another person. We want to reach out and stretch ourselves into the depths of another. We want to bring the other person into the orbit of our deepest selves. We want to probe into the mystery of the other.

I definitely asked too many questions of my teachers and was probably a bit facetious at times.

Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.

I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.

The teachers don't know anything. What are the kids going to learn with a horrible education system?

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.

The teachers who taught me at Dreghorn Primary and Greenwood Academy were fantastic.

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

I love talking to all the kids, and have enjoyed the enthusiasm and response from their teachers as well.

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers' union are rewarded.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.

Teachers should not need to have to buy books for the kids, or pencils and pens. That's absurd.

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could be satisfied by works, but since it is spiritual, no one can satisfy it unless everything he does springs from the depths of the heart. But no one can give such a heart except the Spirit of God, who makes the person be like the law, so that he actually conceives a heartfelt longing for the law and henceforward does everything, not through fear or coercion, but from a free heart.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

I thought we were out of money!? You can't simultaneously fire teachers AND tomahawk missiles.

Anyone who is not on your same evolutionary and spiritual frequency will distance himself from you, while all those who are on the same evolutionary and spiritual frequency as you will come closer to you; you will see how amazing it is to discover that everyone who needs to be by your side will ultimately appear in your life in the most spontaneous and divine manner. That's how powerful the mind is

If I've learned one thing from my mother, my teachers, my greatest female inspirations, it's that Boundaries Are Optional.