Student Success Statement

"Obedience is the great test of life."                        - Thomas S. Monson 
This quote is saying that obedience really is a big thing in your life. Its not easy to be obedient in life all the time and that's what makes it a test, will you be obedient even though you have to do something you might not want to like your parents telling you to clean your room and you don't want to or just because you don't want to do it are you not going to be obedient. You need to have obedience to be able to get to the top. Not being obedient can cause some negative consequences. When I was in leadership in my old school I had to do things that I wasn't comfortable with that the teacher made me do like speaking at the culmination or going to speak to the principal or speaking into the speaker or going into random classes to tale things to the teachers. Even though those things were out of comfort zone I did them and after a while I got used to it and all I would think about was just doing what she had told me and I didn't think
 anymore about if it was in my comfort zone or not. I could have
easily told her I didn't want to do it and I would've probably gotten
kicked out of leadership and I wouldn't have ever made myself
comfortable with the things she told me to do.

Student Success Statement

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."                                    
- Benjamin Franklin 

This Quote is saying that to be successful you need to go to sleep early and and wake up early. If you go to sleep late then you may be late to school or you'll go to school feeling really tired and you won't be able to focus on the work you have to do. If you go to sleep early and you wake up early you'll feel ready for the day, you will be filled with energy and you'll be able to have better focus throughout the day
 at school or any other place like your job.

Student Success Statement

"A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession."        - Hippocrates

This quote is saying that your health is really important. For example you can't be a drug addict and at the same time want to graduate university with honors. Exercise is good to your health. Drugs, alcohol, and smoking can be bad for your health. You need to be healthy to be someone in life, however there are cases in which you have a illness or disease or disorder that may affect you and there really isn't much you can do about it besides trying to get better. Of course there is some things that can be prevented if you lead a healthy lifestyle. If you're not healthy you really don't have anything.

Student Success Statement

"Courage is being scared to death and doing the right thing anyway." - Chae Richardson 

I believe this quote is saying that you have courage and show courage by doing something that really scares you knowing that you are doing the right. For example I'm a really timid person and I never do anything alone for example I had my friend Brenda with me when I did the aids walk 2013, I've always had someone who I know with me, but this Saturday I have an interview with Heal the Bay to be a volunteer for a whole year. I'm so scared about how it'll go on Saturday, but I'm still going to go and try to look my best so I could get in. This is the first time I do something major by myself and I'm really scared and nervous, but hopefully everything will turn out well. Sometimes you're scared of doing the right thing because no one else is doing it, but you have to have the courage to do what is right even though the whole world might not agree with you.

Student Success Statement

"Act well your part; there all honor lies."           -Alexander Pope 

I believe this quote means that if you choose the right then that is where honor is. It means that you don't have to go looking for honor, that as long as you always do what is right then you'll have honor. For example you may be in your class and you may not think that you're honorable, but you're always always doing what is right like cooperating with the teacher and helping out classmates when they don't understand something and that make you have honor. As long as you choose the right you have honor, your honor does not depend on others, nobody can earn that honor for you, you have to do it yourself.

Student Success Statement

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."           -Sophocles
This quote I believe it means that it is better to fail honestly, with honor rather than winning by cheating which is bad thing to do. For example if you're in a basketball team and your team practiced a lot to win the game but loses at least you know that the team tried its best and that you guys failed, but with honor that you guys had at least tried that is better than maybe taking something that will help you win the game or do something that was wrong that made you guys win, but you didn't win with honor, you won by cheating. Another example is that if you're taking a test and you studies, but even though you had studied it didn't help you with all the questions and you end up failing the test at least you know you did the best that you could even though you could've probably done something to not fail which is better than getting an A on the test by cheating off the test of your partner. Also another example would be that if you don't do your homework and you say that you didn't do it and turn it in later but you did it yourself its better that turning it on time by cheating off a friend and not getting that practice to understand whatever the homework was about better. 

Student Success Statement

"Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness, or unhappiness depends on his attitude... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines."                           -James Allen 

I believe this quote means that the way you act, your attitude will decide the thing your mind thinks. I think its saying that if you want to succeed in life you need to have a good attitude because having a bad, negative attitude won't take you nowhere.  For example if you are a person who gives up very easily you'll be a failure and will create unhappiness. If you're a person with a positive person you're more likely to be successful and be happy because you're more likely to turn something negative to a positive thing and find the best out of everything. If you fail a test and are angry and you blame your
teacher then that will lead to failure because you're not really
solving anything with that attitude, but if you're positive and say
 that the test will make you next time study more and make you
want to do better next time.

Student Success Statement

"Kindness is the essence of greatness."                 -Joseph B. Wirthlin 

I believe this quote means that to be knd is the greatest success you can reach in life. Kindness is what makes you great. For example if you're a millionaire, but don't like giving money to charity or you just pass by a homeless person and don't have compassion for that person no one cares anymore if you're rich or no they care if you're kind. If a person who barely is making enough money to survive gives something to a homeless person it is showing their greatness and that what other people see the kind thing you have done. People don't like others you are selfish and don't think about helping others, you have to be kind no matter what because even if you don't get a reward as in like money or something material you atleast get the satisfaction that you did something for someone else.

Student Success Statement

"Visualization-Imagination: What you see is what you get." - Anon 

I believe this quote means that whatever it is that you imagine its what you are going to get, since you're imagining it makes you want it more badly, which drives you to do everything you can to get it. For example if you're imagining the next time you have a report card you have straight As and you could just imagine how proud your parents will be then it will drive you to do even better in school so you can get those straight As and get what you imagined. If you don't imagine things then you might not have the same drive to get what you have wanted. Of course you could imagine something that is wrong and you might accomplish it, but  you'll have bad consequences afterwards.

Student Success Statement

"You will never be a winner if you lose your temper." - ANON

I believe this quote means that in order to win, to be successful you must not lose your temper, If you lose your temper it would show a bad trait and will show that you cannot control your emotions. For example if you're in the finals of a game and your team loses then you should not lose your temper and be mad for losing or screaming at people, instead you should be happy for the triumph of the others and be happy and proud that you atleast got to the finals and that your team at least tried to win. Another example would be that what if an employer doesn't hire you and you just make a huge situation out of it and you're really mad, but then you find out a couple of days later that the employer was going to change his mind and hire you instead, but didn't because of losing your temper.

Student Success Statement

"A CTR champion is a person who makes a great human out of himself."                                     -Noemi Trigueros 

I believe she is saying that a person who chooses the right is a person who is successful in life. They are kind, respectful,responsible, trustworthy, humble, generous. If you're a great human it means you have been choosing the right which makes that person a CTR champion. For example if you're rich, but like giving back to those who need it, support charities, and you are very humble about being rich, using your success to better the life of someone else makes you a great person which also makes you a CTR champion.

Student Success Statement

"There is no giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps." -ANON

I believe this quote means that you don't reach success easily in just one step it takes time and obstacles to get to success. Its a lot of little steps to reach success which means it doesn't just happen overnight. For example there is a lot of people that are just like, "Well, I'm going to go to high school, go out with friends, graduate and then i'll go to Princeton, and then become a doctor," but its not like that you have to take specific classes in high school to get into a good college and then you have do extracurricular activities while in high school and you have to get a good score in your a SAT or ACT and then after you graduate from college you have to go to medical school and do internships. You don't reach success very easily, it takes time, effort, persistence, obstacles, and much more.

Student Success Statement

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it"                                                   - William Penn

I believe this quote means that you always have to do what is right because doing right is the right thing to do even  if everyone in the world against doing what is right. It also says that doing the wrong is the wrong thing even if everyone is doing what's wrong. For example if you're at a party and everyone is drinking and you get there and people want you to drink you shouldn't because not drinking is the right thing to do, even though everyone else is in favor of drinking, drinking is the wrong thing to do.

Student Success Statement

"Cowardice asks the question 'Is it safe?' 

Expediency asks the question 'Is it politic?'
Vanity asks the question 'Is it popular?'

But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' 
And there comes a time when one must take a
 position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor
 popular, but one must take it because one's 
conscience tells one that it is right."
 -Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.

I believe this quote means that you have to do what is right because its right not because its a popular thing or a politic thing. You have to do the right thing because its the right thing and nothing else matters. For example if your friend is bullying someone then you should tell because its the right thing to not, not cover up just because that person is your "friend". Even if other people don't want to choose the right because they don't
 think that that's "cool" you still should do what is right because
your conscience tells you its right.

Student Success Statement

"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it."                                                                 -Abraham Lincoln

I believe this quote means that you need to believe that doing the right makes people and things successful. That we need to believe that doing the right will bring us good consequences in life. For example if you know that some cheated on a test it would be better to say the truth and tell the teacher that that person cheated and then you would be choosing the right and the person who is cheated won't want to cheat again which help him/her learn that they need to study so they won't have the need to copy. Doing the right will make us stronger, powerful.

Student Success Statement

"The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem."                                                                                       - Dr. Laura Schlessinger 

I believe this quote means that when you do right you might get a reward that is material, but you also feel rewarded from the inside, you feel great, you want to do the right more often, you feel better about yourself. When you do the right the most important reward is the one you get from inside yourself. For example on Saturday my sister and I were going to buy food and a blind person needed help crossing the street and my sister helped him. The reward she got was feeling good inside for helping someone and she didn't need any other award. 

Student Success Statement

"Right is right only when entire."                                      -Victor Hugo 

I believe this quote means that right is right when you do everything as in like you choose to do your homework which is doing the right but you had copied off someone then thats not choosing the right. So it doesn't matter if you did your homework if you copied off someone, it wouldn't matter if you turned it on time and it was all complete if you choose the wrong by coping. If you're going to do the right you have to choose the right in every single detail not just one part.

Student Success Statement

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased." 
          -Ralph Waldo Emerson 

I believe this quote means that when you practice something a lot you find it easier to do some things. For example if you don't get a certain chapter in math class but you get help and you ask questions and practice the problems when you get a test on that chapter you will find it very easy. If you find something difficult persist on learning it until you don't find it difficult anymore.

Student Success Statement

"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have." 
      Thomas Edison, inventor 

I believe this quote means that your worth isn't based on what you have. its based on what you consist of, your values, your personality. I think this is a great quote because it says that it doesn't matter if you're a millionaire if you don't care for others beneath you, you could be living in the worst part of town but if you are kind, caring about other people, that makes you worth more than you could ever imagine. You could be a millionaire but if you don't care about others and waste all your money on yourself then you really aren't worth anything.