Student Success Statement

“Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers, or you can grow weeds.”

-Anon

I think that what this means is that our mind is the brewing place for success and that what we put in there (whether positive or negative thoughts) will grow into actions that can lead to beneficial consequences or negative ones. It is our choice.

Student Success Statement

"We become what we think about."

-Earl Nightingale

   Our thoughts are very powerful. They drive our actions. Our actions, and how we treat others and ourselves, are a representation of who we are. If we think bad thoughts than we become bad people. If we think positively then we become great people. We can use our thoughts as tools to drive us through struggles and right towards our goals and dreams.

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“Good thoughts bear good fruit. Bad thoughts bear good fruit.”

-James Allen

Our thoughts can be thought as seeds. They are the base of our actions. We think before we act and our actions are for the most part reliant on those fleeting thoughts beforehand. This could be a good thing and a bad thing. If we think positively we will act in such a manner beneficial to ourselves and society.  If we think negatively it might impact our actions greatly to a point that will hurt us and other who do not deserve it. That is why we should never think ill of others or have a bad attitude towards certain situations. If we have good thoughts we will plant seeds that will grow into delicious fruit.

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“It’s better to be alone than to be in bad company.”

-Anon

I think that the ego and pride of the human spirit makes us underestimate the power of peer pressure. As strong as our will is we are almost always inclined to fit in and be well liked.  Constant need of approval from people who we consider superior fills us with hope that one day we can be at the same level and go promptly beyond them. We want to surpass their status in a social level and that’s why we sometimes associate ourselves with negative company. They will influence us in a non-productive way. I rather be alone than to surround myself with people who want to sway me to be involved in illegal activities. Sometimes we need time to ourselves to self-meditate about our choices.

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“You cannot do wrong and feel right. It’s impossible.”
-Ezra T. Benson

Our conscience is given to us as a gift to be able to distinguish right from wrong. We are not heartless nor ignorant towards our feelings. They are forever present even if we ignore them or try to avoid them. We reap the seed we plant. Cause and effect can be applied to this. If you do right then you feel right but if do wrong then you’ll feel wrong. There isn’t a loophole to our feelings. Things happen and we can’t control our emotions but we can control our actions. 

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

-Robert E. Lee

It’s preferable to endure struggles while working to do what is correct than to have to have regrets biting at our consciousness. Those regrets and feelings of negativity stemming from avoiding the struggle don’t go away too quickly, that’s if they go away at all. The satisfaction of doing what you’re supposed to comes with not having to worry about feeling bad about it afterward.

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“The right way is not always the easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.”

-Margaret Chase Smith

Taking the easy way out usually involves compromising your morals to not bother to work hard towards the complexity of ethics. Popularity has little to nothing to do with what is correct. If you pay attention, the revolutionaries against repression have fought against popular opinion, even if they were left to fight alone. They had courage and did not back down against the struggle.

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“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing”

-Theodore Roosevelt

I believe that once again we have found the quote that shoes the simplicity of doing what is correct. We go back to basics. We consider the values and morals that have been implemented in us thanks to society and it comes naturally. We figure it isn’t that difficult to do what is right when we are aware of our morals. There is nothing better than doing what is right. Do I cheat, or try my best? Well what is the correct thing to do? I won’t cheat. It’s that easy. It’s the best choice. 

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“Only I can change my lifer. No one can do it for me.”

-Carol Burnett

I am who I am. I am the driver in the highway of life. I have choices. I know what is right and what is wrong. I have control. No one else does. I take actions that have consequences. I believe that I have power within myself to be who I want to be. This is MY life. In the end, the only think certain is that the decisions I make will in turn create new beginnings. Whether they are the ones I had in mind is up to me. My mom might want me to be a housewife or something of a sort, but I shall aspire to be more. I shall aspire to be independent and self-sufficient. That life isn’t enough for me so I’ll work as hard as I can to get what I want the right way.