Student Success Statment

“Dare to do right.”

-Rex D. Pinegar

This quote is very relatable and is something you may see in your everyday life. Daring is a game where you put yourself at risk to do something you may not always be comfortable with. In this quote by Rex D. Pinegar he is relating to this lifestyle game. Rex is encouraging us to always do what is right and comfortable when it comes to being the darer or the one being dared.  Always strive to do what you feel most comfortable with and never let anything so little effect you in any way. Always daring to do what right can help you avoid being dared to do what’s wrong. Being dared and taking a bad dare in consideration is a way to risk yourself in trouble and being hurt. Daring to do whats wrong is an example of CTW, it just puts you at risk for so much that can have a negative output to others. Daring yourself or others to do whats right is an example of CTR. Daring someone to do something right and comfortable with will make them feel good about yourself. Dare to do right is a safe and a way to avoid consequences and taking the challenge.

A great example that can be shared is, being dared to jump off a roof. Jumping off a roof is very unsafe and in fact very dangerous. If you are being pushed to do this dare, it makes you feel uncomfortable and they start calling you names. At the time you feel pushed and pressured to do something you know you don't feel comfortable doing as well as you know it's dangerous. If you result in doing this dare its a sign of weakness, you let others tell you what to do. To be a CTR person stand up and use your voice on how it isn’t cool.

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

-Wilford Woodruff

This quote is pretty self explanatory. You can never gain or learn something valuable with doing what is wrong. Doing what is wrong will always be wrong. To add on, in this quote what they are saying is that doing what is wrong will never help you in any way. Doing what is wrong will lead to consequences and negative outcomes. You will never gain anything good from cheating, lying, stealing,etc. These are example of CTW actions. Only bad will result from bad actions. Also, doing negative actions can have a good effect for a short time period but guilt and shame will always result. You won’t gain much in yourself with CTW action. CTW actions will lead to bad action, bad labels, and bad consequences in your life.

An example of a CTW action that can connect to this quote is cheating. If you cheat in anyway for whatever reason, you are only cheating yourself. Cheating can never have a positive feeling, but guilt and shame for your action. Cheating can lead to consequences and bad label on yourself. You don’t gain anything from a wrong doing.

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“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

-Henry David Thoreau

You can never go wrong with choosing the right. This quote can apply to Choosing the Right,because it will never fail you. Being CTR will never fail you, but it will bring greatness into your life. Greatness can be represented as goodness in this quote. In this quote by Henry David Thoreau he is stating that doing what is right will never disappoint you in any way and it will benefit you in some way. To add on, Choosing what is right is the way to go to get that goodness feeling. Choosing the Right will lead to positivity and great actions coming your way in life. Goodness can be represented as the positive actions. Their will not be any negative results with CTR. Negative result and no act of goodness can only result from a CTW individual. CTW will only put you in a wrong path and it will give you negative results.

A good example that can follow up to this quote is being in a CTR vs. CTW scenario. Let's say a friend of yours didn’t do her homework, because she was out hanging out with friends the whole weekend. To add on, she didn’t invite you and she asked you if she can copy your homework. In this scenario you can easily commit a CTW action and letting her copy your homework. Or, you can be a CTR person who knows how to distinct right from wrong and tell her you won’t let her copy your homework but you will help her. This is an act of CTR. In result, when your friend finishes their homework you guys feel good for completing the assignment on time and no act of wrong was committed.

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“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

In this quote by Joseph Smith it is applying the thought that we should get everything good know. He is indicating to use our power of voice to promote and make know the difference between good and bad. The things that indicate the good is CTR in general. Everything CTR is good and we should all help promote that. To add on, we should discourage any kind of CTW wrong doings. Anything that would be considered good would apply to CTR, anything considered bad would be CTW. Discouraging CTW would help evolves CTR actions. A great example that can follow up this quote is, a student. A student is an individual who is an example for not one person. This student represents himself. To explain this example, the student always CTR and his friends see that in him. To conclude, with the example of the student he used his courage and voice that help change his friends to a CTR student that can eventually lead to more awareness.

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“I won’t cheat”

-Dale Murphy

Cheating is a characteristic of Choosing the Wrong. Cheating consist of plagiarism, cheating, copying others work,etc. Cheating is something bad and a wrong thing to do. In this quote by Dale Murphy he is saying he will never cheat, therefore he is choosing the right. Choosing the Right is being honest and doing your own work. Dale Murphy is choosing the right by promising he will never cheat. Cheating is bad, because it creates a bad label on yourself and can take everything good away from you. There should be no reason to cheat when there are questions that can be asked to help improve your performance mentally or physically. It is bad in any way and you won’t feel good doing it. Cheating is another way of lying. Anyone who decides to cheat is just trying to get the easy way out. Do the wrong and eventually you will get the consequences.

A great example that can follow up this quote is Dale Murphy himself. Dale Murphy is a professional baseball player. As a professional, cheating is just the only way to get him out of the real game. The real game is when you learn and feel all the knowledge you have for this sport. As for Murphy if he were to cheat and everyone found out, he would lose everything and create a bad label on him. No athlete would desire to do that after all the hard work they have putten in. Cheating is another form of lying, choose the right.

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“Character Matter Most”

-Dale Murphy

Character is the representation of who you are. You are know for the type of character you have, and usually it what's others determine how you are with that bit of information. It is important to have good character, because the more likable people will see you. Having good character can be seen as a positive way. In other words, having a bad character is something negative that can be seen. Bad character is something you don’t want, it's a bad representation of yourself. Who you are is all determine by character,environment, and your action. The people you surround yourself will develop your character greatly. To add on, actions determine character. Choosing the Right can appeal to this, because choosing the right is the right thing to do.

Preciously mention, friends determine character within you. This is a great example, because character is in your environment. Having the right friend will help you commit to better actions and doing. Better character can be applied to Choosing the Right. You Choose the Right by choosing great people to surround yourself with. Choosing the Right with great people around will impact you well, building better character within yourself. As mention before, character is very important and can be determine. Having a good character is something to have, it is a great way to represent yourself. Character determines how others see you.

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“It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.”

-James Freeman Clarke

Action determine destiny. What you do today will impact your future in either a positive or negative way. In this quote by Mr. James he is applying that if you either do wrong or right now it will make a difference in your future. Little things can impact your life and you will look back and understand why or why didn’t you do it. If we choose to do good we will have a positive difference in our future. If not, when we choose the bad we will have a negative impact in our future. Actions have consequences, they can either be bad or good it's all up to us. The example that given to us on this quote was James Holmes. James Holmes was a CTR person who had him a future ahead of him, but character was very poor. His character made him create a decision that impacted his life today with life prison for murder. To add on, actions can be also determine with the crowd we hang on. We have the desire to fit in, but we try are best to. We need to think and set yourself in a position on what we want to do in the future.

A great example that can follow up this quote is being a CTW person. Being a CTW person means doing wrongful things that you need is doing you no good. A CTW person fall great under this example because, it they decide to do bad actions and do wrong it will impact you greatly in the future if there is repetition. CTW commit actions that will determine their destiny.

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“The best way to predict your future is to create it’

-Charles Ketterer

This quote is very relatable into my life. This quote is something i follow to achieve more and encourage myself to do more. Goal setting is what i can relate to this quote. This quote is very inspirational and it is the truth. What this quote is saying is that, your visual predication of you future all determines on how you create it. Therefore, the actions you commit is what will determine your future. To have a higher possibility to have something you desire in the future is to try to achieve it by little steps. Our goals is our visual for something in our future. Visualizing your future is what leads you to your goals. This quote is very well stated and if you plan to have something or do something in the future you must set your mind to it and achieve it. Every second we are making history, time flies way too fast, the future isn’t so far away from us. Actions determine destiny, so be wise on your decisions.

A great example that can follow up this quote is an individual who is careless with school. This individual is a CTW person. Because decision determine destiny, at one point he had a reality check. In this case, this individual didn’t care about school and was just a hypocritical person. At one point he realized that as he grows he realizes more, he had a reality check. This reality check change his ways, because he saw his destiny. Because he was CTW he saw his future as nothing but no success.

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“Ask yourself is it right or wrong and act accordingly.”

-Otto Graham, Jr.

This quote applies to CTR and CTW. In this quote it also is applying, think before you act. Therefore, before you do something dig deep on your decision and how it will affect you positively or negatively. Choosing the Right and Choosing the Wrong both apply to this quote by using what you know to create a decision. In this quote, asking yourself if something is wrong or right can affect your future. This saying by Otto Graham, choose the right. Choosing the Right is doing what is good for you and isn’t bad in any way.  Daily we have ur routines and decisions that determine the next step you are taking. Be wise with your decisions and no harm will be cause. No matter what our choices will determine what will lead us in our way, it all goes back to our own selves. We make our own decisions and what we do it what we get.

To add on, a great example to follow up this quote is cheating. CTR is a daily reminder in this class. You are nothing but encourage to Choose the Right. It is up to you if you want to face or avoid the consequences. Cheating is a great example for this quote, because when cheating there's consequences. Everyone has cheated at least once in there life, but what good have you gotten out of it. Cheating is something you always think before you do. Because cheating is wrong, when thinking you must act wise. Cheating is wrong, and shouldn’t be doing it. Cheating is wrongful and shouldn’t be done.

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“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.”

-George Washington

This quote is shared with us today in honor of yesterdays presidents day. In this quote is it sharing with us that those who you surround yourself is who you will become. In this quote those who you surround yourself you will pick up their habits, character will build up like them, and you will eventually become one of them.  Also, if those people you surround yourself aren't those that do you good then you must leave them behind and focus on a good reputation on yourself, if there isn’t an individual who can be suited for you than it’s better to be alone. Friend can’t always be the best effect on your, but they can be the greatest people in your life. Friends have pro and cons characteristic that you can eventually build up to be the best around. Those who you socialize that are bad example should be left behind and should try to find someone to socialize that will do you better. Out of everyone in your world, if their isn’t many you can associate you can follow on being alone. Being alone isn’t bad, it helps continue being yourself and doing the right. The good people you surround yourself will lead you to being a CTR person and taking the correct path. To add on great example that can follow up this statement are two different group of friends, each one always have a CTR and CTW person. In the group with a CTR person is in a group with those who help each other out, are kind, help you evolve, encourage you, give you confidence,etc. In the other group, their is only one CTR student and the rest are CTW student. In this group they call each other names, they make you chose wrong, they encourage you to do bad decisions, and you eventually develop bad characteristics. To conclude, the differences in both group can determine who you become. Those you surround can have a impact on you greatly.

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“Even if everyone is doing it, WRONG IS NEVER RIGHT.”

-Russell M. Nelson

This quote is very clear stated, what this quote says is being a follower isn’t going to do much good for you. Doing what is not the correct thing to do will never be the right thing to do, even if everyone is doing it. Russell quote is very well stated and it does apply to a lot of what happens in the world today. As said by Mr. Nelson, doing what others do will never be the right thing to do. Doing what others do, especially if you know it’s wrong, will never make it the correct thing to do. The only thing it will do is just make the problem a bigger thing to handle. Choosing the wrong will always be wrong, even if millions of people will do it. We live by a set of rules and laws that contribute to the best for us, if not followed it can cause us problems leading to consequences. Choosing the right will never be considered wrong. Being a CTR person will lead you to a path of greatness. Don’t be a bad follower and do what you know is best.

A great example that would fit in this situation is peer pressure to do drugs. Doing drugs will always be bad, you doing it will not make it any better. Peer pressure isn’t always the brightest thing in the world, but we need to control it. Being peer pressured to drug is an act of CTW. In this situation you are forcing someone to do something they shouldn’t and you are encouraging them to do something that is wrong. The best thing to do is this situation is ignore it, walk away, etc to not commit an act of wrong.Who cares if everyone is doing it, wrong will never be considered right.

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“Of all the work that is done or that can be done for our country, the greatest is that of educating the BODY,the MIND, and above all that CHARACTER, giving spiritual and more moral training to those who in a few years are themselves to decide the destinies of the nation”

-Theodore Roosevelt

This is very long inspirational quote, What this quote basically summarizes is our character and the way we are is what makes up the community. Therefore, what we reach to accomplish is always done by our way of characters. Our daily decisions is what makes us who we are. With those decisions we start committing action. Because of those action they can either be harmful to ourself and our surrounding or can be viewed in a positive way. What this quote is also stating the greatness of education. With education we learn so much about ourselves, others, and what are surrounded by. According to Theodore Roosevelt education is used in a positive way at times. With the education we inform ourselves what our body, mind, and character is and set too. Also said by him, the more good spiritual practices we make to yourself the more we can do for our country. Therefore serving back to make it better.

A great example that fits this quote is the different type of people around us. I personally see everyone equal. Everyone is considered equal, therefore we all have equal rights and views towards anything. Because everyone is equal it doesn't mean we all are alike. This goes to towards those people who choose the right and chose the wrong. In a person who choses CTR, they will make positive choices that reflect on themselves and others. Because of their positive view they always give back to the community to make better what need to be fix. On the other hand those who don't choose CTR usually end up doing thing that harm themselves and other. In that case those who do, end up harming the community and themselves giving negativity around. They provide bad examples. Educating the mind, body, and character can have a impact.

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“When you tell one lie, it leads to another”

-Paul Hatch

Lying is not part of being a CTR person. Lying is something that once it’s done it will be repeating. Lying is a bad habit to develop and will be repeated more than once. Lying isn’t a good thing to do, it breaks reality and the truth. What this quote by Paul was said and his video, lying is done more than once. In Paul’s video, he gave very good reasons why lying is bad and what it leads too. As said as our Student Success Statement,’ When you tell one lie it leads to another”.  Repetition happens when telling lies and then your lies start to build up. When you lie it’s bad in every way, because you're not telling the truth. After telling one lie you can’t stop, so you eventually end up doing many more.  Lies can get you caught up with the truth that eventually you won’t know what was really said and can get you in even more trouble. Lying is a way to being a CTW person.

A great example that follows up this quote is cheating. I find cheating a way as lying, because you're being unfair and lying on the actions you are doing. A great example of cheating is when you're in a game or you're watching a game and you see something unusual. When you see cheating occurring you are committing actions that don't really represent the reality of you. Cheating is a form of lying, because you are lying about your actions. When lying about your actions that can get you somewhere in life, doors close. When you lie you are closing opportunities for yourself. Your actions have consequences.

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“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”
Proverbs 13:20

This quote refer to what we do now affect us in what we do in the future. In this quote it clearly state what will happen on your actions of who you are around from. From this quote, what you clearly affect you in a way are the people. This quotes states that those who we hang out with will affect our actions in the future. In this quote, wise people are those CTR people. CTR people are the ones on the right path. CTR people are those are doing the good things where they will go somewhere in life. As for the quote, the fools are referred to those who are CTW. Those who are CTW are the ones on the wrong path and most likely won’t be going anywhere far in the future. The right people are the ones who will help you succeed and keep you away from the negative things in life.

A great example that can follow up this quote refers to us teenager. As i said before, us teenagers just try to fit in and be “cool”. Teenager will most likely commit to different actions to be well known around the school. This actions that will get everyone talking involves the bad things. For example, in some cases you are consider cool and you fit in by drinking and/or smoking. These things that are considered cool are the worst choices to help you succeed to not go anywhere in life. Those who you are around with, you are most likely to eventually do the same sooner or later. This quote can also relate to, what you see is what you most likely will do. Therefore, this quote clearly states those who you surround yourself will determine who you are and what you will lead to in the future. Choose the correct people, they will help you succeed and help you make new accomplishments.