Student Success Statement

“Have the courage to say no. have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the 3 magic keys to living your life with integrity.”

W. Clement Stone

Reflection: This statement is really true. The three keys to living your life with integrity are, have the courage to say not, face the truth, and do the right thing. You have to have the courage to say no when it is needed, like if someone offers you drugs you have to be courageous and say no. Also you have to be able to face the truth, and accept what you did wrong, instead of making up excuses or going in denial. Last but not least you have to do what’s right. Doing the right only benefits you and makes you a better person. Choosing the right is always the right thing to do and doing what’s right is definitely and important key to living a life full of integrity.

Student Success Statement

“A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.”

Thomas Carlyle

Reflection: This Reflection by Thomas Carlyle is very true. A person without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. If someone doesn’t have a goal then they don’t know what to do in life or how to accomplish what they want. A shipper without a rudder can navigate itself or move, in relation with a person, a goal serves the same as a rudder because it navigates people to their dreams. If you don’t have a goal, you won’t be able to accomplish anything and won’t know what to succeed it. Choose the right and set a goal for yourself.

Student Success Statement

“Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choice”

-Albert A. Montapert

Reflection: This statement makes total sense. I agree a lot with Albert A. Montapert. Nobody will or ever will escape his or her consequences. All the choices you make come with consequences and you can’t escape them. Either good or bad there is no way you can escape your consequences. For example if you steal something you will eventually get caught and will go to jail. Everything you choose or decide on come with consequences and you can’t escape them. Choose the tight and let the good consequences come to you!

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“Success is dependent on effort.”

-Sophocles, Greek dramatist

Reflection: I agree a lot with Sophocles statement.  Success is definitely dependent on effort and nothing else. If you show a lot of effort and you try your hardest, you will succee4d in life and accomplish your goals. On the other hand if you don’t try at all and show no effort you will not succeed and become a failure. Effort is what makes someone succeed. For example, if you try your hardest and show lots of effort in every class your taking, you will succeed and will earn great grades. All your effort pays off with success and if you don’t show effort you basically won’t succeed. Show lots of effort and succeed in life!

Student Success Statement

“Choosing the right is always the right thing to do.”

-Alex Linares

Reflection:  This quote is really true. Choosing the right is always the right thing to do no matter what. If you do what’s right then you are choosing the correct decisions. Choosing the right makes you feel better as a person. For example, if there is trash on the floor and you pick it up you don’t only make yourself feel better but also help out the environment. You help make clean your surroundings and the areas you live in. Choosing the right benefits you and the whole community. Choose the right because it’s always the right

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“It’s better to be alone than to be in bad company.”

ANON

 

Reflection: This statement is really true. It’s better to be alone than in bad company. It’s better to be alone and choosing the right than with others who choose the wrong. Those who choose the wrong will influence you in a bad way. For example if you associate with people who do drugs, they will influence you into doing drugs and can even transform you into a drug addict. You will become filthy and demoralized like them, causing discomfort and hurting your own body. It doesn’t matter if you’re alone, as long as you do what’s right you will become a better person and feel good about yourself. Choose the right and avoid bad company!

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Improvement begins with I.”

Anon

Reflection: This statement is really true. Improvement begins with you and no one else. You have to improve in order to get better at things. It begins with you and no one else because you are going to change and improve. No one else will improve you, you have to improve yourself and achieve your obstacles. You will only accomplish your goals if you improve, and that starts with you. For example if you’re not good at Math, you have to study extra hard and listen even more to improve and get better. It all starts with you. Choose the right and take a step forward to improving!

Student Success Statement

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

Helen Keller

Reflection: This statement by Helen Keller has a lot of meaning to it. Alone a person can only do so little but if you work together you can accomplish a lot of things. For example, if only one person protest against animal abuse, he/she will accomplish very little or not much at all, but if a whole organization of people work together to stop this cruelty, many things can be accomplished. Like today The ASPCA and PETA are both two huge organizations who work against animal cruelty and have made a lot of differences in the world. You and group of people can also make a change. Choose the right and work together!!!

Student Success Statement

“So often, in our quest to be more popular and to be part of the “in-group,” we lose sight of the things that are far more important.”

Sean Covey

Reflection: This statement is really true. Many people to become popular choose the wrong. By doing that you forget about the important things In life. For example many teens today drink and do drugs just to look” cool and popular.” These teens forget about the important things like education, family, health, etc. many people mess up their lives in order to become popular and choose nothing but the wrong. Stick to who you are and choose the right! Don’t just choose the wrong to become “popular”, it actually makes you less of a person.

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible”

Ezra T. Benson

Reflection: This quote has a lot meaning to it. If you do what wrong you will never feel right. If you do wrong it will always remain in your conscious and you won’t feel right. You will feel guilty or uncomfortable rather than right. For example if you steal something you won’t feel right, you will feel panicked, scared, and guilty. On the other hand if you help someone in need, you will feel awesome and right. Choose the right and avoid feeling wrong!!!

 

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“The only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door for failure. Thus the first law will obey, which precedeth all others is—‘I will for good habits and become their slaves.’”

Og Mandino

Reflection:  Og Mandino has a really good point. You habits determine whether you succeed or fail. You habits differs you form other and separates the people who succeed and those who fail. For example if you have a really bad habit of cheating, everyone will see you as a cheater and won’t trust you. On the other hand if you have a habit of studying all the time, people will see you as an intellectual person who is very studious. People who have good habits will succeed in life and those who have bad habits will fail. Choose the right and stick to your good habits! 

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force.”

Elaine Maxwell

Reflection: This statement is really true. It’s up to no one whether you fail or succeed; it’s only up to you. You are the force to whatever you have succeeded or failed in. You make your own decisions and all the consequences are because of what you’ve chosen either good or bad. For example if I get an A+ on my English class, it’s because I’ve worked hard, done all my work, and have studied. My force and determination determines whether I succeed or fail. Everything is up to you and no one is responsible for your failures or accomplishments. Choose the right and use your force to succeed!

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Keep your eye on the prize”

ANON

Reflection: This statement has a lot of meaning to it. You have to keep your eye on the prize in order to reach your goal. For example if you want to go to a University and graduate you have to “keep your eye” on succeeding in school and giving it your all. If you forget about your goal then everything will go downhill and you won’t succeed. You always have to stick to your goal and make sure you accomplish it. Choose the right and keep your eye on the prize!

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“You make your habits and your habits make you”

-ANON

Reflection: This statement is totally true. You make your own habits and your habits make you. What you do or your habits make up who you are because it’s what you do most of the time. For example if you have the habit of lying a lot, then you will be recognized as a bad person who lies  and no one will trust you or believe what you say. Also if you cheat people will see you as a cheater that cheats his/her ways out of things. Your habits make you who you are. If you have nice habits then you will become a nice person, but if you have bad habits you will be a bad person. Choose the right and have nice habits!

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“It not WHERE you live but HOW you live that counts. It’s not where you play the game but HOW you play the game that counts”

Mr. Haymore

Reflection: This statement made by my New Media teacher Mr. Haymore is really true. It doesn’t matter where you live but it does matter how you live. You can live in the nicest area in the country but if you live unhappy then you aren’t living your life. Also if you live a life that is full of hate, depression, anger, and the wrong it will affect your surroundings and make everything negative. It also doesn’t matter where you play the game, but it does matter how you play the game. For example you can be playing in the staples center but if you cheat or play wrong everything will become bad. What matters is how you play the game how you play is more important than where you play, you can play in the nastiest place ever but if your choosing the right everything will be fun and okay.

Student Success Statement

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails”

-Henry David Thoreau

Reflection: Goodness is truly the investment that never fails. You can never go wrong with goodness and it will never fail. Goodness will remain with you all your life. If you do good actions and do what’s right you are investing in your goodness. The more good you do the better it is for you. Goodness never fails and you can count on it. If you do good, positive things will come your way and if you do badly negative things will surround you. Invest in goodness and it will never be a failure.

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

Joseph Smith

Reflection: This statement by Joseph Smith is really true. We should concentrate all our influence to what’s good and not what’s bad. It is our duty to do so. The good things brighten our future and the bad things just destroy the good things in you. For example, we should concentrate on going to school and getting better academically and not going out to parties that involve drinking and smoking. Another example is being respectful to others rather being disrespectful and using profanity. Choose the right because it’s your duty!

Students Success Statement

“What’s right isn’t really popular. What’s popular isn’t always right.”

Howard Cosell

Reflection: This statement makes total sense. In society, most of the popular things aren’t right and what’s right is not popular. For example, drinking, smoking, and doing drugs are very popular in the modern world. Many teens nowadays drink, smoke, or do drugs just to look “cool” or become “popular”. Another thing that is popular in society is music that uses bad language. This influences kids to say bad words and it makes them filthy. Many things in society are popular but aren’t right. Ignore these negative things out there and stick to who you are, don’t try to be “popular” or “cool”.

Student Success Statement

“The time is always right to do what is right”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Reflection: This statement made by Martin Luther King Jr., a huge historical figure of the United States is completely correct. There is always time to do the right. The time is always right when you choose the right. For example there is always time to be respectful and courteous. You always have to respect others no matter what time. On the other hand, time is never right to do what’s wrong! There is never time to do the wrong. People shouldn’t choose the wrong at any time because it's filthy, negative, and mean. Choose the right because there will always be time to do so!!!

 

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after”

Ernest Hemingway

Pay attention to what’s right and what’s wrong.

Reflection: I totally agree with this statement made by Ernest Hemingway. If you do what’s right you will feel good afterwards but if you choose the wrong you will feel bad and filthy afterwards. It all depends on what you do. Those who do what’s moral live a happy life and always feel good. On the other hand those who do the immoral live a negative dark life and always feel bad. For example if you don’t cheat on a test and get a perfect score you feel awesome, but if you cheat on a test and get a very low score you end up feeling bad and negative. Choose the right and do what’s moral so you can always feel good!