CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!
Student Success Statement
"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have."
Thomas Edison, Inventor
This means that you can have everything you want and not be worth much. You can be a billionaire and be tremendously wealthy but have no worth if you got all that by fraud and lying. You can have nothing at all and still be worth than alot of the people put there. Your material belongings are not what make you worth alot. It is the type of person you are that makes you be worth something.

When You Tell One Lie

Paul Hatch

When you tell one lie, it leads to another

So you tell two lies to cover each other

Then you tell three lies and, Oh Brother,

You're in trouble up to your ears!

So you tell four lies to try to protect you

Then you tell five lies so folks won't suspect you

Then you tell six lies and you'll collect

A life filled with worries and fears

'Cause you can't remember how many lies you've told

And half the things you say aren't true

And sometimes you'll slip up, you'll trip up and then

Whatever will become of you?

So you lie and lie without even trying 

And each lie you tell will keep multiplying

'Till the whole wide world will know you're lying

The you'll be 

Suspected

Detected

Rejected

Neglected

And you should!

When you lie, you're closing the door

On everything good 

STUDENT SUCCESS STATEMENT

"I wasn't trying to leave a legacy. I was trying to do what was right." 

Dean Smith 

I think this means that once you do good all things come unexpecatdely and unknowingly. It means that if you choose what is right you will get a reward from it. Dean Smith wasn't trying to coach a team for himself, he was trying to coach a team for them and so that they can win and be good. He wasn't trying to be loved or leave a legacy behind but he was trying to do his job and coach a team well. Because of this he gained the reaspect of his team and they loved him because he never forgot about them. So this shows that you should always do good because sooner or later you will be rewarded for it and praised for it. 

Student Success Statement 

"CTR connects you to happiness and success. CTW disconnects you."

Mr. Haymore 

This quote means that if you choose the right you will always be happy and always be successful. If you choose the wrong you will be disconnected from all the good things and all the success and greatness that awaits you.Choosing the right is always the right thing to do it will make you happy and lead you to great things. It willl make you feel great always and you will always feel good about yourself. For example if you choose the right and always listen in class and proceed forward, what awaits you is a life full of hapiness and succes. But if you choose the wrong and decide to hang out with the wrong people and start doing drugs, you will fail and start disconnecting from all the things that make you happy and you will dicsonnect from all the happiness and success in your life. 

Student Success Statement 

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."

Aristotle

This means that in order to truly educate yourself you have to educate your heart first. In order to learn you have to educate your heart first. Also, you have to learn thath you have to educate yourself from both places. This kind of reminds me of the saying you hear but you dont listen. You have to educate your heart in order to educate your mind. 

Student Success Statement

"It's better to be alone than to be in bad company"

ANON

I think this means that it's better to have no friends than to be surrounded by bad friends.It is better to be by yourself than to be full of people who are bad influences and that make you do bad things. For example if you hang out with people that drink and smoke, then you will most likely begin drinking and smoking too. That is why it is better to be alone. By yourself you can't develop the habit. 

Student Success Statement

"You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible." 

Ezra T. Benson

This means that you cant do something that you know and feel to be wrong and get good results from it, it isn't possible. For example if you do drugs you will never feel good after it and you will never feel good about yourself either. If you choose wrong it will remain in you mind and will never get out. You will live with it forever and you will not be able to get over it. You have to choose the right always to feel good about yourself and to not feel bad. If you choose the right you will feel right and you won't have to live with the fact you did something worng. So just choose the right and don't choose the wrong so you won't have to live with the fact that you did something wrong. You won't feel guilt either. If you choose the wrong and expect to feel good about it, the feeling will never come. 

Student Success Statement 

"I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing that to incur the reproach of our consciences." 

Robert E. Lee

Doing the right may hurt you a little bit. It means that you'll have to suffer sometimes.This means that you should choose the right at all times. For example, if someone is trying to get you to do drugs, smoke, or even drink, you should be smart enough to walk away or deny their offer. If you choose right over wrong, you will feel good about yourself. But if you do accept their offer, you will feel bad about yourself and feel guilty too. You should choose the right because you are aware of how these substances harm you and how bad they are for you. When you do the right thing you will feel good about yourself. For example if you do what is expected before they tell you, you will feel good that you did what you were supposed to and you might even get a praise. When you do the bad thing you will feel bad about yourself. For example, if you don't do your homework then you will suffer the consequences and feel bad about yourself. 

Student Success Statement 

"Tell me what is right and I will fight for it." 

Woodrow Wilson

I think this quote is trying to say that if you tell him what is right he will stand up for it and fight for it. He will fight off the wrong and stand up to what is right. He also means that he won't let the wrong get in the way even if its the better thing to do. For example, if someone is being bullied because of race and you know it's wrong you should do something about it and stand up for it. Because racism is bad and if you ignore the problem, it will only continue to happen. 

Student Success Statement

"The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is true test of  moral character."

Margaret Chase Smith 

This means that the right way to go won't always be fun, easy, or popular. But no matter how embarrassing or shameful it is it is the best and right thing to do. If you do choose the right you will feel better and won't suffer the consequences. For example if you know someone is being threatened or treated bad in  school you might want to tell a teacher but are afraid of getting called a snitch. This is why after all the embarrassing stuff passes, you will feel good that you choose the right and chose the right thing to do. 

Student Success Statement

"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right."

Mario Cuomo

This means that when you feel something wrong its because your doing something wrong, For example, if you are being pressured into doing drugs or anything like that but you feel bad about it and still do it, you are choosing the wrong. You will feel horrible and guilty. Your mind feels when you do something right and when you do something wrong. When you are aware that you are choosing the wrong you will feel bad and guilty. When you choose the right, you will feel good about yourself. 

Student Success Statement 

''Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

Carol Burnett

I think this means that only you can make a change for yourself. It means that whatever I do either it good or bad I can only change what I did. If you do bad things you are the only one who can change that mistake no else can. If a drug addict want to stop doing drugs, only he can make the choice. Only he can send himself to rehab. 

Student Success Statement

"When I good, I feel good.

When I do bad, I feel bad."

Abraham Lincoln

When you do the right thing you will feel good about yourself. For example if you do what is expected before they tell you, you will feel good that you did what you were supposed to and you might even get a praise. When you do the bad thing you will feel bad about yourself. For example, if you don't do your homework then you will suffer the consequences and feel bad about yourself. 

Student Success Statement 

"I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it; for I shall never pass this way again."

ANON

Choose the right always because you wont ever be in the same situation again. It means that you should always do the right thing because you may never know if you are put in that situation again. Once you skip an act of kindness you can never go back to it again. For example, if you see a homeless person on the street you should help them out right then and there because you never know if you'll see that particular person ever again.

Student Success Statement

"You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience."

Robert E. Lee

I think this statement means that once you practice doing what is right it will become a life long habit and you will probably never worry about doing wrong things. once you do the right thing you will feel better about yourself and if you do the wrong thing your conscience will continue making you feel guilty.

STUDENT SUCCESS STATEMENT

"To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice."

Confucius 

I think this means that if you know what is right and you decide to not do it when you are capable of doing it, then you really are a coward. If you decide to do whats wrong when it is so easy to do the right then you really don't deserve much. You should always do the right thing despite if its hard or not. For example, if someone offers you to do something bad like steal, or do drugs or anything wrong then you shouldn't do it because it is so easy to avoid problems and just say no. 

College Athletes' Honestly Caught on Security Camera

In Wayne, N.J four young college football players decided to go into a store that had been a closed an hour before they went in. The store was unlocked and the lights were on so they had no idea it could be closed. They got the items they need and left the money on the counter including the tax, even though there was no cashier. These kids chose the right because they could have easily stolen what they needed, yet payed for it instead. These kids went worldwide and all over the news. They were later praised and even given a $50 gift card.