Today I asked my students to share with me some of their favorite quotes. I wanted to prove that most of the writing we remember and quote often uses contrast, chiasmus, rhyme, and most of all brevity. I thought you’d love to see some of the words students keep in their minds as favorite quotes. I also recommend asking students what they chose for their senior yearbook quote, too! You’ll learn so much about them:
Lost time is never found again.—Benjamin Franklin
Fear can hold you prisoner; hope can set you free.—Andy Dufresne in Stephen King’s Shawshank Redemption
How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.—Rupi Kaur
We can’t always choose the music life plays for us, but we can choose how we dance to it.— unknown
No one succeeds unless we all succeed.—unknown
It’s not the critic who counts. . . but the man who is actually in the arena. —Theodore Roosevelt
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.—unknown
Embrace what makes unique even if it makes others uncomfortable. —unknown
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.— Wayne Gretzky
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.—unknown
Not all who wander are lost.—J.R.R. Tolkien
Be excellent to each other. Party on.— Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Do or do not. There is no try. —Yoda.
Before you heal someone, ask him if he is willing to give up the things that make him sick.—Hippocrates
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.—Mark Twain