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Choice

“Success is not an accident. Success is actually a choice. Are the habits you have today on par with the dreams you have tomorrow?”

Alan Stein

Reflection: It’s your choice to pass or fail a test or activity. Some people have the choice to follow their dreams or give up if you really want it you’ll actually do anything to reach for it.  

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“A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder”

Thomas Carlyle

Reflection: A person that has goals can see him or her in a good position where he or she is heading for life like a boat with the rudder it can steer to any direction the person has to go. Without your goals you’ll be lost and won’t know how to move from where you’re at.

Reflection 2: There are 3 people that have had achieved their goal by setting their minds to it since they were little. 1. A guy who can do tricks with fire and balance it very well. 2. A bean shooter he shoots rocks at things with a sling shot since he was 10 because they wouldn’t let him use a gun to hint for their food. 3. There are girls who can walk on top of an airplane they had set that goal when they first saw it on TV back in England. By seeing yourself accomplish that goal in the future can inspire you to keep on trying. 

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Beautiful character

"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

Reflection: what this quote means is that if people make it possible to follow these steps there wouldn’t be any chaos or problems in this world.

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

Sophocles

Reflection: this quote means that it’s better to play a clean game and loose rather than play dirty and win because after all you didn’t actually win or tried your best to win. It’s better to try something and be proud and have pride on what you did than to cheat. 

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Good values

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

Dennis Prager

Reflection: If you have a good values like good manners and the right choices it will make you a true person. People like people when they are good because that means we can trust them.

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Nothing

        

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

Wilford Woodruff

Reflection: Whatever choice you make is how people are going to see you as, for example if you choose to do the wrong  you’re only going to get hate by the choice you made if you try to hard but only do the wrong actions bad consequences are going to happen to you.

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An internal phenomenon

“The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity (self-worth), integrity, and self-esteem.”

Dr. Laura Schlesinger

Reflection: Being proud and self-confident will make you want to do everything right because you know you can do it yourself without cheating or copying someone else. This quote also means that you will feel happy on what you’re doing for yourself. 

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Forgive

“When a deep injury is done with us, we never recover until we forgive.”

Alan Paton

Forgive: to stop feeling angry or resentful toward someone for an offense, flaw or mistake.

Reflection: What this means is that if you know a person that had done something wrong and you’re really angry at them, you should forgive them because it’s better to stay friends other than being mad at each other a dumb reason. You may need that person in the future.

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Stand alone

“Dare to stand alone.”

Thomas S. Monson

Reflection: If your friends are doing something wrong and ask you to be involved don’t do it because you’re not going to risk yourself just be with them or fit in. If you choose the wrong with them they’ll be in trouble and you too since you had decided to join what they were doing. It’s better to be alone and choose the right other than be with a bad group and get in trouble for something not worth it.

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The right thing

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Reflection: This means that you always need to do the right choice or decision because it’ll just make your life easier and will make people happy, and proud of your actions. Doing the right thing will always make you look better as a person, so if you see someone having trouble help them because you can make their life happy and make their day, you’ll also feel good about yourself.

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“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

UCLA

Reflection: What this means is that you can try your best and focus on your goal it may not be easy but as long as you keep trying you’ll know that you can do it. If you try hard to achieve your goal you’ll accomplish it but if your just there hoping it’ll happen nothing good will happen in your life. 

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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

Head Softball Coach Western Oregon

Reflection: What this means is if you step up for your consequences that’ll make you seem like a responsible person. Also if you start making the right choices when you need to, it’s good to see people seeing what’s best for them. 

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The 10 Indian Commandments

• Treat the earth and the dwells there in with respect.
• Remain close to the Great Spirit.
• Show great respect to your fellow beings.
• Work together for the benefit of all mankind.
• Give resistance and kindness wherever needed.
• Do what you know to be right.
• Look after the well- being of mind and body.
• Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater good.
• Be truthful and honest at all times.
•  Take full responsibility for your actions.

Reflection: These 10 commandments are showing us how to choose the right and what the Indians used to follow in order for their community to cooperate with each other. By following these commandments you’ll know how to be good with yourself and the people around you. 

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“A promise must never be broken”

Alexander Hamilton

Reflection: If you promise someone that means you’ll give your priority to that promise. Why promise something that you won’t do. Some people take it very serious. A promise is some basically assuring the person that you will do exactly as what they asked you to do, and eventually you’ll have to do it because if you don’t the person won’t trust you ever again!

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Visualization- imagination

“What you see is what you get”

Anonymous

Reflection: What this means is that if you have a goal and you focus in it you will see yourself in that position as long as you make an effort to make it there.

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Goodness

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

Henry David Thoreau

Reflection:  You should always be good no matter what your behavior will always reflect on who you are and if you can’t accomplish anything at least be a good person.

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They’re right

“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

(Formore president of Notre Dame)

Reflection: what this quote means is that you should always take the right decision. Just because the choices that come up and your friends  chooses the wrong you don’t have to follow them if you know that’s not what you want because then the person whose going to end up failing is you for thinking that decision you made would make you seem “cool”.

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Sound and good

“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.

Reflection: what this quote means is that we should only say positive things so more people can listen and they can make good choices. Eliminate the negative stuff that people mostly hear and will be doing.

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Be true

“I am bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong”

Abraham Lincoln

Reflection: What this quote means is that you should surround yourself with positive people and stick with them when they choose the right. If they start acting bad then you should stay away from them because then they’ll make your life difficult.

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Character

“Character is higher than intellect”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reflection: Character shows what kind of person you are. If you’re a smart person and you’re a good person you’ll get along with mostly anyone, but if you’re just acting smart and always trying to be rude no one will like you. It won’t matter if you’re smarter than other people because they’ll know that your personality is dry and dull.