Student Success Statement The Ultimate Choice

The Ultimate Choice 

Of all the choices you ever make, there us one that supersedes all the other choices. this one choice will help you to always make correct decisions. This one choice, the ultimate choice, is the 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: This last student success statement is telling us that the best choice we can make, to lead a better life, is being a CTR person and always doing the right. This choice as stated before supersedes all the other choice, in other words, its above any other choice which I don't really think is true. However it is true that being a CTR person helps you make correct choice and helps you be a better student and that we should be able to demonstrate that. 

Student Success Statement Thomas Carlyle

Student Success Statement 

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

Thomas Carlyle

Reflection: We need to have goals in our lives so that we know what is our purpose. Also goals are a very important part of our lives just like the ship and its rudder. 

Student Success Statement Sophocles

Student Success Statement

 "I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."

Sophocles 

Reflection: This should be what everyone should think because we should rather fail a test than cheat. We should rather not win in a sports game than use steroids and enhance our performance. If we do the opposite of what we should do then the consequences will be much worse you can be shameful, regretful and humiliated.  

Student Success Statement Dan Dierdorf

Student Success Statement

“If I've got correct goals and if I keep pursuing 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: In this quote we see that we need to have good goals and when we set our minds in doing these goals then everything falls into place. We need to do things right so that we are able to succeed and have a better life with no regrets. 

Student Success Statement Dennis Prager

Student Success Statement 

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

Dennis Prager 

Reflection: It is important to have good values because it helps us succeed in life and it makes us a better person. Also with good values we achieve more stuff than what we lose and we help create a better person for ourselves. Having good values is more important than love, happiness and money because without good values we wouldn't even have love, money, and happiness.  

Student Success Statement Wilford Woodruff

Student Success Statement 

"Nothing is ever gained in doing what's wrong."

Wilford Woodruff 

Reflection: This statement is very true because when you do what's wrong you lose something, you never gain anything. This shows us that we should do what is right to gain something instead of nothing. 

Student Success Statement Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Student Success Statement 

"The reward for doing right us mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity (self-worth), integrity, and self-esteem."

Dr. Laura Schlessinger 

Reflection: In this statement we see that doing the right makes us feel better of ourselves in the inside. Also it helps us gain self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. 

Student Success Statement Thomas S. Monson

Student Success Statement 

"Dare to stand alone."

Thomas S. Monson 

Reflection: We have to be able to stand alone. We don't want to be like JamesOn Curry, a former basketball player, that just stood along with the wrong crowd and because of that his career was washed out. we have to dare to stand alone even when we are scared because we don't want to do the wrong thing or hang out with the wrong crowd.

                         

Forgiving is Healing

Forgiveness 

Eric Smallridge was a drunk driver that had two account of manslaughter after killing Lisa and Megan both 20 years old on impact. He received 22 years in a state prison but all that changed when a woman by the name of Renee, Megan's mother, asked to cut his sentence in half. In a letter she wrote that she had forgiven him. Lisa's parents also forgave him. Renee said forgiving him was going to help her and well as him heal. This was true because Eric was really sorry about what he had done and starting helping Renee bring awareness about drunk driving to young teens. he is now released and will continue to help others.

Student Success Statement Alan Paton

Student Success Statement 

"When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive." 

Alan Paton

Reflection: This is a very powerful statement and it is something we have to do. In the bible, it also mentions that we have to forgive our neighbors and the ones around us. When we forgive someone that has caused us pain or a problem, we have to forgive so that we can move on with our lives and not feel resentment. 

Student Success Statement Theodore Roosevelt

Student Success Statement 

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you could do is the right thing."

Theodore Roosevelt

Reflection: Even though we are are doubting about what we should do we have to do the right thing because that is the right thing to do.

Student Success Statement John Wooden

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 

Reflection: This quote is telling us that each day we have to live it like we are doing something really big like an artist creating their masterpiece. We might think that we are doing really bad right now but you apply yourself to whatever you are doing then after time passes you will become better.

An Amazing Softball Story

Do the Right Thing

In a game between Western Oregon and Central Washington, a senior named Sara made her first home run, but when she forgot to touch first base she quickly turned and torned something in her knee. She couldn't walk and touch all the bases to complete her home run and none of her teammates could touch her because if they did the home run wouldn't have counted. Mallory and Liz from the opposing team decided to do the right thing and asked the empire if they could carry Sara. When he said yes, Mallory and Liz carried her and touched all the bases helping Sara make her home run. They showed that people are still kind and that they still do the right thing. 

Student Success Statement Pam Knox

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: Many people are afraid to do the right thing because they fear that others are going to make fun of them and bully them. There is going to be the obstacles that we face when we want to do what is right but we are scared. We have to have the character and step up to do what's right.  

Student Success Statement Alexander Hamilton

Student Success Statement 

"A promise must never be broken"

Alexander Hamilton

Reflection: A promise is something that must be kept forever. It should not be broken because when you break that promise serious consequences are to come. These might including losing a close friend or just them losing their trust on you. I remember one time I broke a promise and I felt really bad so I went to apologize to my friend and luckily she wasn't mad. But we should follow what Alexander Hamilton tells us and that is to not break any promises.

Student Success Statement Anonymous

Student Success Statement 

Visualization-Imagination

"What you see is what you get"

Anonymous  

Reflection: This quote is telling us that we have to see ourselves greater so that, that is what we are going to get. We need to be cat that sees itself like a lion. If we have that in mind we will achieve greatness. 

Student Success Statement Henry David Thoreau

Student Success Statement 

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." 

                 Henry David Thoreau 

Reflection: This statement is very true because when we look for goodness and try to achieve it, we will find it. It will not fail us.

Student Success Statement Theodore Hesburgh

Student Success Statement 

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

                       Theodore Hesburgh 

Reflection: I think that this quote is trying to say is that we have a choice to choose which decision is best for us and that is right. We do not make them if they are cheap, popular, or easy. We should follow this principle so that our decisions will not be wrong. 

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement 

"It is our duty to concentrate all of our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound."

Joseph Smith 

Reflection: What Mr. Smith was saying was that we should not promote or do things that we know are wrong such as drinking, smoking and doing drugs. When we do these things other people see it and it's like we are promoting or making popular drinking, smoking, and drugs. This is why Mr. Smith is telling that we should make popular what is sound and good like having good manners, no cussing, and being helpful. 

Student Success Statement Abraham Lincoln

Student Success Statement

“I am 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: Not everyone wins and not everyone wins all the time. We are not perfect, no one is, which is why Lincoln said he is not bound or tied to win because it is not something we not do sometimes. Also he is saying that he deciding to have friends that do right and if they do wrong he will part from them. I think this is a good idea because if you hang out with bad influences then you will follow their example and do the same things as them.