Student Success Statement: The Ultimate Choice

Student Success Statement

“Of all the choices you will ever make, one choice supersedes all others-the ultimate choice. This one choice will help you to 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: What this quote means is that there are many choices out there a person has to make. But the ultimate choice is to be a CTR person which is to always choose the right. This ultimate choice will lead you to being the best student and best person you can be. This ultimate choice will affect you for good than any other choice.

Student Success Statement: Alan Stein

Student Success Statement

“Success is not an accident. Success is actually a choice.”

Alan Stein

Reflection: What Alan Stein is saying is that success is just a choice. For example, Stephen Curry made the choice to be one of the best NBA scorers in history.  Stephen Curry also chose to practice on his shots and moves everyday which lead him to success. 

Student Success Statement: Thomas Carlyle

Student Success Statement

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

Thomas Carlyle

Reflection: What Thomas Carlyle means in this quote is that if you have no goals you will not go the direction you want like if a boat without a rudder won’t go where you want the boat to go. When you set a goal you must focus on it till you accomplish is it. Once you set a goal if you really want to accomplish it then keep on working hard each day to accomplish it. If you do not work hard on your goals you will just go straight forward like a boat does without a rudder.

Student Success Statement: Chinese Proverb

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

Reflection: What the quote is saying is that the only way there can be peace in the world is if there is beauty in character. Also if we have beauty in character then there will be adjustments at home. 

Student Success Statement: Sophocles

Student Success Statement

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

Sophocles

Reflection: What I think the quote is sating is it’s better to fail or lose by not cheating than to win by cheating. For example, if you fail a test it’s better to fail it with honor and not cheat than to pass the test by cheating and later not feel happy about it. 

Student Success Statement: Dennis Prager

Student Success Statement

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

Dennis Prager

Reflection: What Dennis Prager is telling us is that the most important thing that anyone has is good values. An example of good value is choosing the right. What good values can do to you is be honest, reliable, dependable, loyal and the list goes on.

Student Success Statement: Wilford Woodruff

Student Success Statement

“Nothing is ever gained in doing what’s wrong.”

  Wilford Woodruff

Reflection: What the quote by Wilford Woodruff is saying is that whenever you do wrong you don’t gain anything at all. You don’t gain any power or anything that you can think of. What you just do is wrong and nothing else. There is always a lose in doing wrong.

Student Success Statement: Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Student Success Statement

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

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Reflection: What I think that Dr. Laura Schlessinger is trying to say is that the reward we get when we choose the right is self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. But if we choose the wrong we don’t get any self-respect, no dignity, no integrity, and our self-esteem goes down.

Student Success Statement: Alan Paton

Student Success Statement

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

Alan Paton

Reflection: What Alan Paton is trying to tell us is that the only way we recover from an injury is by forgiving, which forgive is to stop feeling angry or resentful toward someone for an offense, flow, or mistake.

Student Success Statement: Thomas S. Monson

Student Success Statement

“Dare to stand alone.”

Thomas S. Monson

Reflection: What I think Thomas S. Monson is trying to dare us to do is choose the right and don’t follow others. For example, JamesOn Curry what breaking high school records and was an amazing young man but he chose to not stand alone and follow the others that were selling and doing drugs. Therefore, Thomas S. Monson is also trying to tell us to stand alone.

Student Success Statement: Theodore Roosevelt

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    "In any moment of decision, the best thing you                      can do is the right thing."
                      Theodore Roosevelt

Reflection: I think that the quote by Theodore Roosevelt is saying that when ever you must make a decision always choose the right decision.

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: What I think John Wooden is trying to say in this quote is to try as hard as you can every day in whatever you do. And if you do try to become a little better every day you will become a lot better at the end and become the best you can be. 

Student Success Statement: Pam Knox

Student Success Statement 

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

Pam Knox

Reflection: I think that Pam Knox is trying to say that its always good when you are not afraid of doing whats right and so you do it and you do it at the right time. And doing this right thing stands for having a good character and a great moment.

Student Success Statement: Alexander Hamilton

Student Success Statement

“A promise must never be broken.”

Alexander Hamilton

Reflection: What I think this quote means is that when someone tells you a secret and you promise to not say anything you aren’t supposed to say anything. Also anything in life can be broken but what can’t be broken is a promise.

Student Success Statement: Anonymous

Student Success Statement

Visualization-Imagination

“What you see is what you get”

Anonymous

Reflection: What this quote means is that whatever you want to be you can get it. But the way you get it is by not giving up on what you want. 

Student Success Statement: Henry David Thoreau

Student Success Statement

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

Henry David Thoreau

Reflection: What I think Henry David Thoreau is trying to say in this quote is everything else fails or can fail but the only thing that can fail is goodness. Therefore, if you are a good person you can’t fail. 

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 are right.”

Theodore Hesburgh

Reflection: I think that Theodore Hesburgh is telling us that when we make decisions we make them because they are right. There is no other way why we make decisions.

Student Success Statement: Joseph Smith

Student Success Statement

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

Joseph Smith

Reflection: What I think the quote means is that we have to make popular sound good and not make popular sound bad.

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: What the quote means is that we will always loose no matter what. And it’s better to loose and be true than to win and not win fair. Also we must play fair with anyone that we go up against, although you lose or win you must be true and bound to be true.

Student Success Statement: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Student Success Statement

“Character is higher than intellect.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reflection: What Ralph Waldo Emerson is trying to explain in this quote is that intellect is high. But character is even higher than intellect. What this means is depending on how good you act this act is higher than intellect.