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 tomorrow?

                                                               

                                                                                     Alan Stein

Reflection: I think that success is actually a choice. Success it’s not something that happens just because you have to try your best to achieve whatever you want. The habits that you have today will par with the dreams you have tomorrow. When you really want something you have to start trying to achieve as soon as possible. If you really want to do something and you start practicing it and trying your best now it will help you achieve your dream in the future. For example if you want to become a professional basketball player and you start preparing yourself more than anyone else and you look forward to sacrifice some things and do you best on what you want you will achieve it fast. 

   Student Success Statement

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

                                                    

                          Wilford Woodruff

Reflection: I agree with what Wilford woodruff is saying in this quote. The reason why I agree is because you will never gain anything if you choose the wrong. On the other and if you choose the right you may gain many things. For example, if you choose the right you will gain self-esteem, respect form yourself and respect from others people will look at you in a good way. On the other hand if you choose the wrong people will look at you in a bad way and you will lose self-esteem and many people will stay away from you or consequences always come later.

Student Success Statement

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

                             Alan Paton

Forgive: to stop feeling angry or resentful toward someone for an offense, flaw, or mistake.

                          

Reflection: I agree with Alan’s statement. The reason why I agree is because I know that when someone does something to me I don’t stop thinking about it or I will be mad with that person for a really long time. The only way that I stop thinking about what they did to me or i stop being mad at them is when I forgive them. In the instant that I forgive someone I know that whatever they did to me is in the past and I won’t be mad anymore.

     Student Success Statement

       “Dare to stand alone.”

            Thomas S. Monson

                                                      

Reflection: I think that Thomas s. monsoon is trying to make a point in this dare. When you see that a group of people are doing something bad like your friends it is better to get away from them as soon as possible. It is better to be alone and have no friends than to be in serious danger than can bring harsh consequences in the future. The people who will try to make you do something that you are not supposed to or something that will hurt you are not the people you should be hanging out with. It is way better to take your own path in life and be someone who is better than they will ever be.

   Student Success Statement

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.”

                            Theodore Roosevelt  

Reflection: I agree with what Theodore Roosevelt is saying in this quote. If someone tells you to choose between two things you always have to try to think before you choose something. The first thing that should go through your head is if whatever you are going to choose is the right thing to choose. You have to be careful in choosing the right and in choosing the wrong. For example if you are running late to work and you think if I break the rules and I go a little faster I might get there in time. You should always rethink what you are going to do before doing it and think about the consequences that it might bring. 

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 I agree with what John wooden is saying in this quote. If you try your hardest to do something or accomplish a goal that you have set in your life you have to try your hardest every day to accomplish that goal. You might have a goal that is not able to be accomplished until a long time but if you push yourself every day you will accomplish your goal in a smaller amount of time. You should always use every day to your fullest if you want to see bigger results faster.

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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

                      Head softball coach western Oregon

                 

Reflection: In my opinion I think that Pam Knox is right with what she is saying in this statement. I think that if someone steps up and does the right thing at the right time they are great people. Some people are always doing what all the other people do. If there is a huge fight you may see many people joining the fight. There can be thousands of people doing what’s wrong and thousands of other people joining them if you are a person who decides to not be influenced by others and chooses to do the right that person is a great person.

Student Success Statement

   “A promise must never be broken.”

Reflection: I agree with this quote by Alexander Hamilton. I also think that a promise should never be broken because sometimes you may trust a person on telling them you biggest secrets and they might promise to not say anything and they brake their promise that is the worst thing that you can do. When you break a promise people stop trusting you and they would never be open minded in front of you because they know that you aren’t a trustworthy person. By breaking promises you show that you are a really bad person and you start losing friends and people you like. Breaking a promise is something you should never do if you ask me.

    Student Success Statement

            Visualization- Imagination

       “What you see is what you get.”

                        Anonymous

             

          

Reflection: What this quote means is that if you set a goal to be something or be a certain way you would most likely be the way you see yourself. If you see yourself as a teacher in the future then you would most likely be a teacher in the future because you are setting a goal to do something and you would accomplish it. In my 100+ goals I put things that I would want to do in the future. I put things that I want to see myself do and I will accomplish it. You see yourself as you want to be seen. 

Student Success Statement

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

                         

                           Henry David Thoreau

Reflection: I agree with what Henry David is saying in this statement. The reason why I also think this is true is because I don’t see how you can get in trouble or have problems when you are doing the right thing. When you do something good it never fails. For example if you do something bad like drugs or something like that it will end up as something bad in the future it will bring consequences in your life.  

    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 are popular; you make them because they are right.”

                                Theodore Hesburgh

Reflection: I think this statement by Theodore Hesburgh is giving a correct message. When you are going to make a decision you don t have to be forced to make the bad decisions. You should always think about what you are going to do and then make the good decision. For example if someone comes up to you and they tell you to smoke with them you know that this may make you a cool person and others will look at you better but you also know that it is not the correct thing to do. If you look at that person and you tell them that you want to choose the right and not do what others want you to do they make look at you like a boring and an unfair person but you know that you are choosing the right.

  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: I agree with what Joseph smith is saying in this reflection. I also think that we should make the people who do well popular and make the people who do badly unpopular. The reason why there is so many people doing bad stuff are because we choose to make the bad people popular. If we make the good people popular there will be more good people than bad. An example that I can give is imagine that there is an artist who does really bad things like drugs and bad language. People are going to be influenced by that person and start doing the same. If there is a good artist in the other hand that does good stuff and help others people are going to be influenced in doing good things. 

  Student Success Statement

 “I trust that my hard work will pay off.”

                               

        Tyler Haws

Brigham young university Basketball player Mormon Church Missionary

Reflection: I agree with what Tyler Haws is saying in this quote. I agree with him because after watching the two videos of what he has done and accomplished with hard work it has convinced me that he is right. He has worked really hard like waking up in the morning two hours earlier to go to school so that he can go to church and practice. An example that I can give is if you can imagine a person like him working really hard to accomplish something you will achieve your goal if you try your best. In the other hand if you have a goal but you start forgetting about it and you try at all in achieving the goal you may never accomplish it. It all depends in how much you try.

Student Success Statement

“They’re only truly great who are truly good”

                                                George Chapman

Reflection: I agree with what George Chapman is saying in this quote. You can’t call a person great if they aren’t choosing the right or they are bad people. An example that I can give about this is if there is  a really good basketball player. If you see a very good basketball player in television and you admire him and call him a great person but he uses drugs or he uses steroids to be a good athlete he is not a great player after all. By cheating it doesn’t make you a great person it just makes you a person that should be ashamed of them and shouldn’t get recognition for choosing the wrong. On the other hand if there is a really good basketball player and he chooses the right and goes by the rules he is a great athlete. That athlete should get good recognition.

  Student Success Statement

“Many think that the short term gain, will be worth the long time 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: I agree with what George Mitchell is saying in this quote. Why would you be a cheater if cheating is the worst thing that you can do in sports? If you do things right little by little you will reach your goal without having to cheat. For example if you want to be a really good football player but you aren't as big and as tough as all the other football players don’t use steroids to get big in a short amount of time. It would be better to eat healthy and do a lot of exercise so that you can get strong. Taking the easy way like using steroids will cause large consequences in the future. It can even cause death and no team will like you for being a cheater.

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  “Right is right only when          entire.”

               

                 Victor Hugo

Reflection: I agree with victor Hugo. 

The reason why I agree with him is because even for the most little mistake that you made it makes everything wrong. The things that are considered to be done right have to start right and end right. An example that I can give is if you had homework for a class and you forgot to do it so you start doing your homework and then you start copying your partner that is not right. You committed something wrong and that makes everything wrong.

Student Success Statement

“You can’t be right by doing wrong; you can’t be wrong by doing right.

                 Thomas S. Monson

                                               

Reflection: In my opinion I think that Thomas S. Monson is right. Every time you do something wrong it will never turn out right. Even if you do something wrong for a good outcome it will always end up wrong. In the other hand if you do something right it would not come out as a negative outcome it will always be positive. An example that I can give is if you steal someone’s money. You may think that it’s something good for you and it will benefit you but later on something bad may happen only because you did something wrong. 

   Student Success Statement

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

                        Mario Cuomo

                     

Reflection:  I agree with this quote by Mario Cuomo. The reason why I agree with this quote is because whenever you think that you are not doing something right you need to listen to it. When you think that you are not doing something right it means that it’s not right that’s why you have to think about what you are going to do before you do it. For example when you think about not doing your work in class. You are thinking about not doing it because it may end wrong and you are right there is always consequences to your actions.

Intellegence Plus Character

    Student Success Statement

“Intelligence plus character that is the goal of a true education”

               

               Martin Luther King JR.

Reflection: I agree with what M.L. King JR. is saying in this quote. The reason why I agree with this quote is because without intelligence and character there is no true education. You should be intelligent about choosing to do the right and pay attention and do your assignments when they are needed to do that is true intelligence. If you don’t have character it means that when you go to school for an education you do it without wanting too or you are lazy and bored that is no way to get an education. If you get an education with intelligence and character you will learn really fast and in a happy way.

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: In my opinion I think that Richard is right with what he is saying in this quote. I think that we should start and continue what we should do. People should start doing good things and choosing the right. There are many people who choose the wrong only because they don’t have the courage to start doing what other people aren’t doing. The people who do the wrong things and choose the wrong need to stop doing that. The only reason why they choose the wrong is because they don’t have the courage to stop.