Student Success Statement

    Of all the choices you ever make, there is one choice that supersedes all others that will guide and help you in all your 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: I believe this statement means that the way to always do good and keep on track and  live a good life is to be a CTR person. Being a CTR person is not hard, you just choose the right instead of wrong, no matter what the circumstance. Only the best things can happen to someone that chooses the right. You cannot be swayed to go do the wrong because you would have built character and have good morals. Choose the right and will be the best decision you made.

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: I believe this quote means that if you ever want to get better at something or even be the best at it, you have to work the hardest you can every time you practice. Each day has to be the best day and with time you'll realize that the hard work has made you better and better. The more you push yourself, the more you master. It won't come right away, it depends on how much you really want it and strive to make each day, a masterpiece not only in the game, but in life.  

Student Success Statement

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."

-Henry David Thoreau

Reflection: I think this quote means that people who invest in doing good, always have made a good investment. When investing you expect to get something out of it and that's what happens when you invest in goodness, you will receive happiness and a sense of completion when helping others and around your community. Goodness is a lifetime investment that will make you a better person and live life a better way.

Cheating: Is the short term gain worth the long term pain?

Student Success Statement

"Many think that the short term gain will be worth the long term pain, but it isn't. In addition, using steroids is cheating, and there is nothing worse in sports than a cheater. Don't do it." 

-George Mitchell

Reflection: This quote, I believe, means that using steroids or other performance enhancing drugs will make you think you're a big shot for a little while. You might win some awards or be recognized, but later you will only feel worse. You will be called a cheater and you will have no awards and your recognition will not be in good light. The short high of winning is not in fact worth the long term pain and humiliation.

Student Success Statement

"I won't cheat." -Dale Murphy

Reflection: This quote means exactly what it states. I won't cheat. Dale Murphy began this organization for children, to teach them honest playing and moral lifestyle. One shouldn't cheat at school, in a game, or especially in a test, the cheaters are not a good way to be known. "I won't cheat" is a great way to show how important honesty is even at a young age. I won't cheat is something to always have in mind.

Student Success Statement

"Character matters most." -Dale Murphy

Reflection: I think this quote means that anyone who has a great character is often successful and does the right things. Money and fame might be something people want but they are often rude and don't rightfully make their way to the top and in return they don't have much else. A person's character is how other people decide their worth. If you want to be known for the good and be right then be a good character for that is what matters the most.

Student Success Statement 

“The true way to honor the past is to improve upon it.”

N. Eldon Tanner

Reflection: This quote means to me that in order to get over the past and not regret it is to improve it by righting your wrongs. The past may haunt you and you think you can't do anything about it but in fact you can and it is the only way to keep your past honorable and rightful.

Student Success Statement

"Act well your part, There all honor lies." 

-Alexander Pope

Reflection: This quote means to me that when you act loyally and respectfully, you are honorable. It is in your action whether you are seen honorably and in your actions is where the decision is seen. So act well and there is the honor.

Student Success Statement 

"Right is right only when entire."

-Victor Hugo

Reflection: This quote means to me that telling half the truth or not telling the entire story means that the whole thing is a lie. You cannot be right when you are half lying. You have to either tell the whole truth or else you're lying.  

Student Success Statement

"In life as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goal posts are." 

-Arnold H. Glasgow

Reflection: This quote means to me that if you don't set goals out in life for yourself then you wont achieve anything. Much like if football didn't have goal posts then they wouldn't be winning anything. You have to have ambitions in life or else you'll never get anywhere since you know nothing of what you want to do or be 

Ben Carson

• Born in the slums of Detroit, in deep poverty
• His mother and father divorced.
• His mother cam from a family of 24 children
• His mother couldn't read
• His mother raised Ben and his brother, Curtis
• Ben was the worst student in his grade school class
• Ben becomes top student in his school
• Ben becomes a world renowned doctor

Student Success Statement

"I hated poverty. Poverty is more of a choice than anything else, and I can change that. It depends upon how hard I want to work, and I decided that I would change that."

                  -Dr. Ben Carson 

Reflection: To me, this quote means that we have a choice in our life, to be poor or to work hard. Living in poverty is the choice of the person according to Carson, because how high up you climb that ladder to success all depends on the work your willing to give to get there.

Student Success Statement

"You can't be right by doing wrong; you can't be wrong by doing right." 

-Thomas S. Monson

Reflection:This quote means to me that one who does the right thing will always be right. The wrong thing will never be right and the right will never be wrong. This system can change and so you must always choose the right and you will be right.

Student Success Statement

"Enthusiasm makes the difference" 

-Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

Reflection: This quote means to me that with everything done, the ones done with enthusiasm are the best. Enthusiasm gives the difference of having to do something to wanting to do something and doing it right.

Student Success Statement

“Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it’s ended up not being right.”

–Mario Cuomo

Reflection: This quote means to me that the initial feeling of doing something wrong should tell you that it is in fact something bad you are doing. Every time you do something bad, the feeling will not go away until you make it right. Trust your conscious, as it is most times right 

Student Success Statement

"Intelligence plus character, That is the goal of true education." 

-M.L. King Jr.

Reflection: What this quote by MLK Jr. means is that the main goal in giving and receiving an education is to not only build character but to gain intelligence and thus with both points hand in hand, you create a great person, multiply that, and you have a great world. Education helps build the greatest character in which intelligence is the key to it.

Student Success Statement

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad.”

-Abraham Lincoln

Reflection: After reading this quote I believe that Lincoln means that doing the right things makes you a good person and makes you feel like a good person. If you do all the wrong things you feel bad and you look bad to everyone else too. Do the right and you will feel good, do the wrong things and you’ll feel bad.

Student Success Statement

"Take responsibility for your own body, mind, and spirit, for your own physical, mental, and spiritual well-being."

- Mr. Haymore

What this quote means is that one must be responsible for their well-being in all aspects of their lives. This includes their body, making sure they're healthy and strong for all needs. Their mind, being mentally strong is far more important as it assures you'll get through the day and keep up with others academically and physically. Finally, being spiritually well keeps you well in faith and hope for your life and goals. All three general points of oneself should be kept strong and healthy.

Student Success Statement

"We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and the courage to stop what we shouldn't do." -Richard L. Evans

Reflection: After reading this quote I believe that Evans saying it takes a lot to change our ways, especially ourselves and so he states we need the courage to make change. The courage is strength to do what is right and stop what is wrong. We start the good and it continues and as we do that, it stops what we shouldn't be doing, the wrong thing. 

Student Success Statement

"Always do right." 

-Mark Twain

This quote by Mark Twain means that a person must always do whats right no matter what circumstances. People choosing to go with the majority even if its wrong, doesn't make it right. What is wrong is wrong, what is right is right, and one must always choose the right.

Student Success Statement

"When you tell one lie it leads to another." 

-Paul Hatch

          

Reflection: After reading this quote i think it means that as soon as you tell a lie you cannot stop. You have to keep the lies going to keep up with the other lies and you're in an endless cycle that you cannot escape because you do not want to tell the truth. The lies continue and no one will believe you which is why you shouldn't lie in the first place. Lying is not something you should have to continue and its better you stop before you even say one, it might lead to another.