Famous Quotes

"I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher."

John Philip Sousa on Teacher

More quotes about Teacher

• "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

  Khalil Gibran on Teacher

• "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Teacher

• "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

  Confucius on Teacher

• "You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."

  Swami Vivekananda on Teacher

• "I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

  John Steinbeck on Teacher

More quotes by John Philip Sousa

• "Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty."

• "Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music."

• "From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else."

• "My religion lies in my composition."

• "I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect."