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**QUOTE: "** With one success a thousand failures lie forgotten, but with one refusal to try, a thousand successes may prematurely die."

An unknown author once said, **"**With one success a thousand failures lie forgotten, but with one refusal to try, a thousand successes may prematurely die." This quote can mean many things to many different people, however to me, this quote means to never give up on the first try, and that everyone will come across a failure one time or another. Everyone will fail, but no one should give up.

"With one success a thousand failures lie forgoten." In my opinion, this quotes means that if you try your absolute hardest to achieve, you'll have encountered many failures on the way, and sooner or later, you'll forget all about them. If you really want to achieve, the failures and just the past. In order to achieve, you must try your very best and give it your all, and in order to do that, you must come accross some failures. This quotes once said by an unknown author, relates back to my life. I can say that almost everyone in their lives has come across some hard times, just to succeed in the end. For instance, in my own past expierence, I have tried to succeed and failed along the way and failed. As another example, Thomas Edison also was taught this lesson. Where would society be today if he gave up? We would all be sitting in the dark. But did he ever give up? Of course not! His goal was to achieve, and that is exactly what he did. After many failures, he was successful. He is now looked upon as a roal model, and that is only because he tried his very best in evrything he did, and never gave up.

"With one refusal to try, a thousand successes may prematurely die." If you don't try at all, how would you expect to achieve? If you gave up before even giving it a chance, you would not be successful. Giving up sometimes seems like the only option, but failure should not be. As I mentioned earlier, Thomas Edison, was very successful in what he did. If he didn't try, he would have never succeeded. I think he was a great inflouence because with almost every situation, he took it and made it into a challange. If you don't challenge yourself, you won't have any success to look foward to. You can't get through life the easy way out. Sometimes things take time, and giving up right at the begining won't get you anywhere.

If you look at the situation through a narrow prism, it seems like giving up would be the smartest thing to do, yet if you look at the big picture, success will come your way, if you just try. This quote, **"**With one success a thousand failures lie forgotten, but with one refusal to try, a thousand successes may prematurely die," means a lot of things, but to me, it means never giving up when times get hard.


 * Life can be full of pleasant surprises. Identify a time when you experienced a pleasant surprise.

Write an essay about a time when you experienced a pleasant surprise. Explain why this surprise was unexpected and how it affected your life in a positive way. Be sure to explain your choice by using details and examples.**

Life can be full of pleasant surprises. I was once giving a pleasant surprise. Out of many surprises that I've gotten or given, the one surprise that stands out is when I came home and my great grandparents were there. I wasn't expecting them to be there because they live in Florida. This surprise was really unexpected, but a great surprise that I'll never forget. When I arrived home from school, I was walking home from the bus after a long and boring day of school, I dragged myself to my aparment and there, sitting on the couch was my great grandparents. I was in total shock. I didn't realize that they would be there. They live very far from where I lived, so seeing them was not something I thought would happen. I was very surpriesed. That day thurned out great. The family and I got to catch up and we told great stories and had so much fun. I was really glad to see them since it had been a long time. I was so thankful to see them. They stayed for a little while and we had dinner, and talked a lot about Flordia, the kids, the family, and everything else that we needed to talk about that we havn't already. As time went by, they had to leave once again. But the good news was that I was going to see them soon because they also live in New Jersey. I plan to see them again. Although some surprises are not very exciting or good, this one particular surprise really made my day.