Quotes and Short Stories

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Select one of the quotes below and write a well-developed paragraph discussing the quote as it relates to a short story that we have read in class. Use at least one example from a story that we have read in class to support your ideas. Elaborate your discussion with enough specific details to make your ideas clear.

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."

-Dale Carnegie

"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."

-- Bruce Barton

It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

Zig Ziglar

"Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars." Frederick Langbridge

"Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it."

--Merle Miller

"Survival of the fittest"

-Herbert Spencer

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

-Napoleon Hill

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

-JFK

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix

The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on.

-Unknown

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
“Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.”
― John Wayne

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
― Lemony Snicket,

If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made & waiting for you.

-Unknown

“But better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

-Ralph Waldo

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

-Thomas B. Macaulay

“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
― J.K. Rowling,

“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

-Proverb

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.