Teacher

"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others." - Anonymous

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward

"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth" - Dan Rather

"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework." - Lily Tomlin

"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." - Thomas Carruthers

"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron." - Horace Mann

"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn." - John Lubbock

Father

Honour thy father and thy mother stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness - Aeschylus

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong - Charles Wadsworth

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it - Clarence Buddinton Kelland

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters - George Herbert

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity - Jean Paul Richter

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life - Lido Anthony Iacocca

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years - Mark Twain

Doubt

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it - André Gide

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt - Henry Louis Mencken

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any, but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fanatic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are not sure that we are doubly sure - Reinhold Niebuhr

If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt; if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius - Walter Savage Landor

When in doubt wear red - Bill Blass

Preparation

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime - Gail Kathleen Godwin

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs - Mario Andretti

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year - Thomas Dreier

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine - William Feather

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech - Mark Twain