Student Success Statement 

The Ultimate Choice 
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!!! 

Reflecting on this whole year, I'd say that I have gotten better at choosing the right. There are many moments that I am not proud of. At some points I was ready to choose the wrong for completely and all the way. To think and look back at what I would have done makes me feel ashamed and sick on the inside. I feel grateful for the friends I had during that experience that stopped me from choosing the wrong. I know I would have regretted it so much. Like the way I regret it now that I was stupid enough to lay eyes on someone who never cared for my feelings. I am so over that and happy that I chose to do the right thing and I can live peacefully knowing that I'm a CTR person because of my decision. 

                   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?"

                        

I believe it is true that success doesn't just happen out of nowhere by luck or by accident. Because success is a choice, you work hard to reach it.

                   Student Success Statement 

"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."

                 

If a ship doesn't have a rudder then it has no direction, therefore it has no purpose. This is a perfect example of a man without a goal. If we don't set our own goals then it is obvious that we really won't know where to go and not knowing will lead to nothing and nowhere. That is what will become of our lives if we don't set our goals.

                    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

I do agree with this proverb because beauty and harmony combine well with each other. I don't think there could be one without the other. The same goes for order and peace. There wouldn't be any peace without order. Wherever there is beauty there will be peace. 

                    Student Success Statement

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

                                                         
                                                                        Sophocles



I agree that some of us would rather fail with honor than to win by cheating. I think that even if you win but you do it effortlessly because you decide to cheat then it doesn't mean much. But if you fail even after how hard you tried then you failed with honor and that's better than anything.

                   Student Success Statement 

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

                              
                                                                           Dennis Prager

       I believe this is a very important statement because good values are what define you. Without good values what would be so important about you like what would you live by. I think good values help keep you in line and stable. What you feel is very different from the values of reality. You can't have many things that complete your happiness if you don't treasure your values. Sometimes you have to remember that it isn't always about how you feel it is also about valuing the life that surrounds you.

                    Student Success Statement

  "Nothing is ever gained in doing what's wrong."

                                 
                                                                      Wilford Woodruff

It is true that you gain absolutely nothing when you only do wrong. If everything you do is wrong then you're never going to have a career, have genuine friends, find a soul-mate, or have a family. Drugs, harassment, lying, stealing, and violence will never gain you anything so you'll never be anything in life but trash. 
                                                             

                    Student Success Statement 

     "When a deep injury is done to us, we never                         recover until we forgive."

                                                              
                                                                       Alan Platon



I don't agree with this quote at all. I agree if it were a simple mistake but if it's a deep injury, something that has caused you to feel pain and made you cry then i don't think forgiveness should be allowed in the situation. I have had so many people do things to me that I will never ever forgive because If I did I would allow myself to get hurt again and the whole point is to stay away from pain. For example I will never forgive the boys and girls that bullied me during elementary and middle school. I will never forgive the girl that claimed to be my best friend and would flirt with my crush and ended up kissing him. I will never forgive that same douche-bag who put me through so much pain with all the things he did to me and how much he made me cry. He is a horrible person whom I will never give my pity to ever again. He should be ashamed and he makes me feel disgusted. I will never forgive him. 
                   

                     Student Success Statement

                      "Dare to stand alone."

                       
                                                                       Thomas S. Monson

I think that you sometimes do have to stand alone because people are not always going to have the same opinion as you and their opinion may be the wrong choice while your opinion is the right choice. And you might want to stand alone instead of go with them because there's a possibility that they will lead you down the wrong path.

                   Student Success Statement 

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

                               

                                                                  Theodore Roosevelt

I think sometimes this statement is true and other times it is not. For example, if your friend is being picked on by someone and you happen to be there, it isn't the right thing, but you may want to punch that person and it is something out of nature.

                   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

This means that you got to work hard for it every day. You have to push yourself to get better each day so that eventually you'll become an expert at whatever you're aiming for. It's like cooking, if you try to cook the same thing each day and put effort into it, you may finally end up with something that someone may think was made by an actual chef. Or reading, if you read everyday constantly, you will end up reading at such a high speed/level that you never thought would be possible.

                   Student Success Statement

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

                         
                                                                         Pam Knox          

I agree because if someone doesn't step in to do the right thing and solve the situation then who's going to do it? I mean for example if one of our friends doesn't have enough character to step in and tell one of our friends to do the right thing because we all clearly know that it isn't correct then he is going to keep falling into the same mess. 

                   Student Success Statement 

            "A promise must never be broken."
                              
                         
                            Alexander Hamilton

I strongly agree with this statement. There have been so many times that people have promised me something but they still break our promise. Which is why it is so hard to find someone you can fully trust. It isn't fair that after someone promises me they won't tell a secret of mine to anyone I have to end up finding out that the person told someone else close to them and that just makes me angry like I would rather them tell me that they aren't going to keep a promise so that i can prevent myself from getting into problems.

                    Student Success Statement 

                   Visualization - Imagination 

                "What you see is what you get" 


     




This means that if you see yourself doing something extraordinary or something that you just dream about, you can actually achieve it and get it but only if you can really see it. Like Britney Spears, as a child she always saw herself as becoming a huge pop star and she actually became one.

                   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're right."
                                                           
                            
                                                             Theodore Hesburgh


Decisions are not made based on difficulty level, or price, or popularity. Decisions are based on righteousness. 











  

                   Student Success Statement

"It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular which is unsound"

                                                                     
                                                            
                                                                      Joseph Smith


This means that it is our job to encourage and make more known whatever is right and to discourage and hide whatever is wrong.

                   Student Success Statement 

 "It may make a difference to all eternity whether                   we do right or wrong today."
                          James Freeman Clark
                                     

I think this means that if you do something wrong right now at this very, it may be something that will stick with and haunt you forever. Or it could be something right and it will always remind you of that time that good thing happened.

                 "Student Success Statement"

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

                                                                  Charles Ketterer

This is true because if you can't think and create right now how you want your future to be, it's going to be a way longer process of steps when you actually get to the point when you need to start thinking about what you want to do with your life which is why you need to start planning right now.

                   Student Success Statement

        "Ask yourself is it right or wrong and act                                       accordingly."

                                                    

I think you always have to ask yourself before you do something whether it is right or wrong.

                  Student Success Statement

       "Act well your part; there all honor lies."

                        
                                                                  Alexander Pope

This means that you should act with good manner instead of acting horrid and rude because being a good person will gain you honor and being bad will not.