Student Success Statement

The Ultimate Choice

Of all choices you will ever make, one choice supersedes all others- the ultimate choice. This one choice will help you always make correct decisions. This one choice, The Ultimate Choice, is your keystone to being the best student and person you can possibly be. This one choice will forever affect you for good more than any other choice. The ultimate choice is:

To be a CTR Person – To always CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Reflection: I think that this statement is true because if you choose the right all the time then you will have a good life but if you make bad choices you will have bad consequences. If is simple advice but the person has to put in the effort to always choose the right. 

Student Success Statement

If there is beauty in character,

There will be harmony in the home.

If there is harmony in the home,

There will be order in the nation.

If there is order in the nation,

There will be peace in the world.

Conclusion:

If there is beauty in character,

there will be peace in the world.

Chinese Proverb

This means that the simple things add up and contribute to the overall condition of the big thing. If the small unit of the home is peaceful then the next level will be peaceful and overall everything will be peaceful. I think that this is true and if everyone did the right thing the world would be better.  

Student Success Story

“I would prefer even to fail with honor than by cheating.”

Sophocles

Reflection: I think this is true because winning fairly is more important than winning unfairly because then it might as well be a loss. An example is that instead of winning the race by cutting corners and saying you ran the whole thing it’s better to try and if you don’t win you got the experience and practice for next time. 

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“If I got correct goals and if I keep pursing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I ‘m going to succeed. “

             Dan Dierdorf

Reflection: I think that this is saying that if we have good goals and we pursue them then our hard work will pay off. If we work hard at the goals we set we can accomplish our goals. 

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“The most important thing you will ever have is good values.”

Dennis Prager

Reflection: I think that this statement is saying that it does not matter what you have or own but how you behave and what you do.I think that sometimes feelings do come into conflict with values but I think that although morals are more important feelings sometimes that is untrue. Sometimes people have values or morals that are wrong and feelings that are right. An example is slavery and although back then slavery was not seen as bad and it was the right thing to do to turn in slaves who ran away but in this case its more important to follow your feelings that slavery is wrong.                                          

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“Dare to stand alone.”

Thomas S. Monson

Reflection: What Thomas S. Monson is saying is that it better to stand-alone doing the right thing than to stand with others that are doing the wrong thing. Like JamesOn Curry who lost all his records because he joined people who were doing drugs instead of daring to stand alone. 

Student Success Statement

“When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.”

Alan Paton

Forgive: To stop feeling resentful towards someone for an offence, flaw, or mistake

Reflection: This means that in order to move on form something you must forgive. If someone says something to you won’t be able to move on until you forgive them because if not it will still have power over you.

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“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Reflection: This is saying that its best thing to always do is the right thing. He is saying that the wrong thing is never better than the right thing.  If you have a choice between keeping something you found that’s someone’s else’s on the ground or turning it in it will always be best to turn it in. 

Student Success Statement

“Make each day your masterpiece. You have to apply yourself each day to become a little better, and over a period of time you become a lot better.”

John Wooden

UCLA

Reflection: In this he is saying that we must always do what we must to make each day special. We must always live like if we would be proud of our actions and then improve more every day. 

Student Success Statement

“It’s a great moment when someone has character to step up and do the right thing at the right time.”

Pam Knox

Reflection: I think that this is correct except it you should step up and the right thing all the time not just when you think it’s the right time. 

Student Success Statement

1. Treat the earth and all that dwells with therein with respect

2. Remain close to the Great Spirit

3. Show great respect to your fellow beings

4. Work together for the benefit of all mankind

5. Give assistance and kindness whenever needed

6. Do what you know to be right

7. Look after the well-being of mind and body

8. Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater good

9. Be truthful and honest at all times

10. Take full responsibility for your actions

Reflection: I think that this shows that in general the rules are just about respect. The rules are all about respecting others, the earth, and yourself. It’s just telling people that they should feel responsible for others and themselves. 

Student Success Statement

“A promise must never be broken.”

Alexander Hamilton

Reflection: I think this is saying to tell the truth and to do what you say you are going to do. You must be a trustworthy person that people can depend on. 

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“What you see is what you get.”

Anonymous

Reflection: This means that in order to succeed you must have a good self-image and that your success relies in you being able to imagine what you can accomplish.

 

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“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

Henry David Thoreau

Reflection: I think that this is saying that the only thing that we can invest in and get what we put in and more is goodness. An example could be not cheating on something because you invested in not cheating now you will know more than if you had cheated and that is worth a lot more. 

Student Success Statement

“My basic principle is that you don’t make decisions because there easy; you don’t make t hem because they are cheap; you don’t make them because they’re popular: you make them because there right.”

Theodore Hesburgh (Former president of Notre Dame)

Reflection: I think that this means that we have to make the right decisions not because of anything else other than they are right. We have to do what’s right because it’s right. An example would be returning something valuable to someone if they lose it without hoping they will pay for your good deed.

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“It is our duty to concentrate to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound”(not good)

Joseph Smith

Reflection” I think that this is true because this means that we should help people realize that some things are bad and somethings are good. An example would be if telling people smoking is bad and telling them that it is better to do something better like volunteering and helping others. Instead of glamorizing smoking and drugs glamorize helping others.

Student Success Statement

“I trust my hard work will pay off.”

Tyler Haws

Reflection: I think that this statement is saying that you must work in order to get good things in life and even then you have to wait and trust that you will get what you worked for.

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“True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.”

Brigham Young

Reflection: I think that this is true because if everyone was good there would be freedom but often times people are not and because of it everyone suffers. If everyone decided to be good then people would not have to worry of people doing bad and be more free.

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“They’re only truly great who are truly good. “

George Chapman

Reflection: I think that this means that in order to be great you have to act well. An example is you’re not going to a famous athlete is you do drugs and do bad things. Its saying that in order to be remembered as one of the greats you cannot act like terrible person or you will not be remembered. 

Student Success Statement

“Many think that the short term gain will be pain, but it isn’t. In addition, using steroids is cheating, and there is nothing worse in sports than a teacher. Don’t do it.”

George Mitchell

Reflection: I think that this quote is saying that it’s important to always play fairly. He is saying that in sports there is nothing like a cheater and that people should just play fairly because it makes the sport more enjoyable if the game is even. If someone is using steroids in a basketball game its not fair and it takes the other teams chances of winning.