Student Success Statement
Proverbs 22:1
"A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches."
Reflection: This quote is saying that having a good name for yourself is better than any type of money that you can receive. For example, what's the point of being a bad person? What good does it do. It won't make you cooler. It won't make you better. All it's going to do is make you a bad person. Someone with a putrid personality. Is this really what you want to be? Having people like you for the person you are. Is far more important than bathing in riches.
Student Success Statement
" A good name is better than anything you can achieve in this life."
By: Coach K (Mike Krzyzewski)
Reflection: I think this quote means that having a good reputation is better than having a bad one. Think of it this way. You are at work. You work with your fellow peers, but every time you come in they say " Oh its him again." Or if your just awfully disrespectful. You already made a bad name for yourself. It's kind of like first impressions. When you first meet someone that's kind of how you see how the person might be. So if you made a bad name for yourself. It's not impossible to change it, just it's going to take time for the person to understand what type of person you truly are.
Student Success Statement
Right
By: Thomas S. Monson
''If your so-called friends urge you to do anything you know to be wrong, you be the one to make a stand for right, even if you want alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.
Reflection: This quote is mostly saying to be your own leader. I mean what's so fun about being a follower. This quote kind of reminds of me of a quote that has been said by parents for years. " If your friends jumped off a bridge would you do it too." My mom would tell me all the time, but it's true. We may not see it this way but it happens. It may be because of peer pressure, when you do it because either you want to fit in or be part of the group. So when you are part of the group what then. You will just continue to do indecent things. That maybe you don't even wanna do.
Student Success Statement
"True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse."
by: Pathros
Being truly wealthy doesn't mean you have big bucks, to me this means that you have a heart. Well let me rephase, everyone has a heart of course but I mean a heart that has battled through so many emotions yet it still says beating. Think of it this way, a once kind soul that has fallen into the darkness and bathes with riches, he has everything he could ever ask for....or does he. The feeling of being truly happy is not something that money could buy. Being truly in love is not something money could buy. The feeling of just being yourself is something money can't buy. You are one of a kind!
Instead of being a follower, be your own leader! Don't let money rule over you.
