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 always help you 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:Just be a good person and keep your morals and values in check.Don't let others opinions overthrow yours and do the best with what you got.Don't try to be perfect.just try to be the best you that you can possibly be and everything will sort itself out.

Student Success Statement

"Success is not an accident.Success is actually a choice.Are the 

habits you have today on par with the dreams you have of tomorrow?"

Alan Stein

Reflection:I think you build yourself into a great person and are responsible for what you come out as.People tend to blame their failure on others rather than their self as well and just as success is obtained so is failure.You can be what you want to be it all just matters on whether you want to be it bad enough.

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"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."

Thomas Carlyle

Reflection:I find this quote rather intriguing to be completely honest.It's quite true what Carlyle was comparing between the man and the boat.When left without the slightest clue of what you'd like to accomplish in life you really just have no  destined location.Without a destined location or knowing where you want to be in life you your left to do nothing.Therefore,leaving nothing to getting accomplished.

Student Success Statement

"The most 

important thing

 you will ever have

 is good values."

Dennis Prager

Reflection:I think that it's really good to have a set of values.I think that this is definitely something that is true. Without good values, you can watch as your life quickly falls apart. Good habits and good morale lead to a more accomplished life, whereas bad values, and no morale can lead to being unproductive or even becoming someone who loses their life early on because they fell into a bad path. I've often said that I will never feel the need to take drugs or do alcohol because I've learned from other people just how catastrophic taking that dark path may become. I want to be someone that my parents brag about later on in life and that they still think about with rose-colored glasses on their deathbeds.

Student Success Statement 

"Nothing 

is ever gained in

 doing what's 

wrong."

Wilfred Woodruff

Reflection:Well then why to rug dealers seem to be living it way better than we are?How about all those people who gamble and all the money they have?I know of a lot of things that are incredibly wrong,yet they still live the high life.Yea,it's not an honest life nor is it a safe life,but they get through.All I'm saying is that there  are many different ways of attaining success,some more harder than others though,so to speak.

Student Success Statement
"The rewards for doing right

 is an internal phenomenon:self-respect,dignity

 (self-worth),integrity, and self-esteem."

Dr.Laura Schlessinger

Reflection:There are no words in existence to describe how disgusted this quote makes me feel.Absolutely horrified and repulsed by this type of quote.I am more than sick and tired of hearing the same bs fly around and taint the ears of generations to come.For godsake put a dang sock in it and stop acting all self-righteous and let people think for themselves on how they feel.I don't care if you live in some glorified,sanctified life,you keep that to yourself and let others carve their own roads.Doing the right thing doesn't make you feel better about yourself,it doesn't stop world hunger,it doesn't cure depression,it doesn't make up for the fact that someday we're all going to die and be thrown to the gutter forever forgotten.That's just my opinion though.

Student Success Statement

"When a deep injury is done us,

we never recover until we

 forgive."

Alan Paton

Reflection:When we are..offended and exploited I suppose..we tend to become very hostile and untrusting towards others.It's not that we personally know the person or have spite towards them,it's just the fact that it's not easy to trust again after someone hurts you.What is going to constantly plague your mind depending on who you are,is meeting people and having them do the same thing someone else did to you.It's not as easy to forgive than it is to bold hate against someone,I know,but you can't spend your whole life holding someones actions against them

Student Success Statement

"Dare to stand alone."

Thomas S.Monson

Reflection:I really like this quote by Thomas Monson.I mean what it means to me is we don't really need anyone for support or to act as a crutch to lean on.It is ok to be by yourself and do things by yourself.We don't need friends to tell us who we are,what to be,and how to act.It's better to be alone than surrounded o fa room of people who make you feel alone.I think less people is just less distractions and that's just fine by me in all honesty.

Student Success Statement

"In any moment

of decision

 the best thing to do

is the right thing." 

Theodore Roosevelt

Reflection:This is most definitely correct.Though there is a bit of confrontation in deciding what exactly is the "right" thing.Everyone has their separate opinion on what exactly they believe is right so I would word it as,"In any moment of decision,the best thing you could do is what you believe in your heart to be correct."I think you just have to be happy and able to live with the choices you make.

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 my opinion if you really want something you'll go for it.No matter the cost nor struggle as well.It's just a natural response I suppose.I think it's just something we do because we want it badly not because it's forced.I doubt anyone would be able to get a well off position high up without going through the struggles that it takes to get there.You always got to struggle at least a bit.

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"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 guess doing the right thing kind of just make a person feel good about themselves.
It truly is a wonderful feeling to have when doing something that is right and having it affect someone else in a positive way.Like when someone loses there money and you give it back to them just seeing the smile on their faces is enough to make you feel good too.I remember finding keys once and picked them up to give them to the police,then I saw a lady talking to one sitting at a desk.She seemed rather frantic so I listened into what she was saying and she had dropped her keys.I naturally assumed the keys to be hers so i kind of just said excuse me are these your keys and she replied a yes with such joy and relief that she thanked me and gave me a hud and continued to tell me that she loved me .I felt pretty good afterwards because it was just the sweetest thing evr.

Student Success Statement

"A promise must never be broken."

Alexander Hamilton

Reflection:Once a promise is broken I see it as shattered glass.You can try to make up for it for breaking it by fixing it ,but it'll still have some cracks.some people care for strongly for someones promises if they are broken then they never trust anyone again.Thing is don't make promises you can't keep.Promises are a very powerful thing and are taken very seriously by many people as well.

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"What you see is what you get."

Anonymous

Reflection:I think what we think of ourselves affects us a lot.We tend to do this thing were we judge every little thing about ourselves and it affects our image of ourselves.We are who we think we are and will be who we aspire to be.Think big,dream big.Don't become a self-fulfilled prophecy.I don't think that there is any obstacle that one can't overcome except themselves.

Student Success Statement

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."

Henry David Thoreau

Reflection:I suppose this is "correct".It really just depends on how you look at it.Also depends on your views and the person.I wouldn't say it's the most right thing to do,but it isn't exactly the best.You can invest your time in being a good person,but to what the outcome is i sure hope it's to your liking.If I were to sayy...."invest" my time into being a good person I see myself unhappy.I can see people constantly taking advantage of me because I'm to nice and overly good I guess.It's just not for me.The me now though would try to be nice and mess it up by telling a person off because of how they act and stuff.

Student Success Statement

"My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they're easy; you don't make decisions because they're cheap,you don't make them because they're popular;you make decisions because they're right."

Theodore Hesburgh

Reflection:I guess there is some strong truth to this.Decision making isn't exactly the easiest thing to do.Nor is it something you can rush.It's something we take time to think about and analyze to ourselves debating if what decision we make is a good or bad one.In the moment when we have to decide on something we immediately decide on what is right based on what we think.

Student Success Statement

"It is our duty 

to concentrate all that which is

 sound and good,

and unpopular that which is 

unsound."

(not so good)

Joseph Smith

Reflection:We as people have a very strong influence among our surrounding neighbors.If we make an effort to sustain derogatory behavior along with crude,distasteful ways of speaking it may just make us as a community a little more better.By making it a daily thing to do good and be good we will be the spiting image of good.I'm not saying that'd we'd be exactly "perfect",but by working on ourselves little by little we can achieve near perfection.In a good way though,not in a cocky,stuck up way.The way to REALLY impact and get the message out amongst us is to get through the younger generations by using the older ones.Us as "kids" look up to adults and older people for a sense of know how and wisdom so they cold really help create a movement.

Student Success Statement

"I'm not bound to win,but I am bound to be true.I must stand with anybody that stands right and stand with him while he is right,and part with him when he goes wrong."

Abraham Lincoln

Reflection:I agree with this quote.I think that this was really strongly worded and that Lincoln REALLY believed in what he said.He was a man of high class and a gentlemen at that.The fact that he pledge's to do what is right,keeps his promises,and tells nothing,but the truth says a lot.He strongly believed in this and made it a mission to keep this.It takes a lot to do this let alone promise something this big.