Student Success Statement

"No student ever attains eminent success by simply doing what is required of him/her; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."
                                                                         -Charles Kendall Adams, American Historian

Reflection: In order to have leverage, one must not only succeed in what they are expected to do, but also excell past the requirements in order to stand out of the crowd. Everyone does the same work, however providing  more effort can make a huge difference.  

Student Success Statement

                                                 "Goal setting is goal getting. Set and get."

                                                                                -Mark Victor Hansen

Reflection: By setting your goals, you'll actually commit to them and achieve them. Mark's "set and get" method can actually work. If you never set goals for yourself than you will never have a plan and you will be lost. For example if you don’t have your life planned out than you won’t know what you want to do for the rest of your life.
                                         

Student Success Statement

                                         "The best way to predict your future is to create it."
                                                                                          -Charles Ketterer

Reflection: In order to create the future life that desire you need to have a clear vision of what you want. Having determined what you want, you need to adopt the behavior required to achieve it as well as determine the value why you need it so as to motivate the behavior to attain it. Going to College can be an example. But of course,there are always things that happen to us along the way that we can't predict, like getting hit by a bus.
                                               

Student Success Statement

                       "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."
                                                                                                     -Japanese Proverb

Reflection: Our thoughts, or visions, are simply ideas. If we don't act upon them, they simply become a figment of our imagination. Acting without thinking can prove disastrous results because we do not have a clear "vision" of what we are doing and acting on our emotions. Its is better to clear your mind and then take action.
                                                        

Student Success Statement

                                   "Adversity causes some men to break--others to break records"

                                                                                                      -William A. Ward

Reflection: It all depends on the person's inner strength as to how well they handle adversity. A stress a person faces can be turned into a motivation, and it is possible to overcome it. For others, its too overwhelming for them and it prevents them from progressing. Everyone can learn to overcome adversity by having a positive attitude.

                                                         

Student Success Statement

                               "The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves"
                                                                                                            -Anonymous

Reflection: One must set goals and achieve them at their own pace. You shouldn't aim to be better than others, you should aim to be better than yourself, to achieve, to help, to learn, to love more. The victories that stick, the ones that build lasting confidence, are the ones where you impress yourself instead of others. It’s easy to win. It’s tougher to win when it requires you to be at the top of your game and constantly improving. But it’s so much more meaningful. In the same way, lasting motivation comes from the bars we set high for ourselves. Humans have a way of working hard to live up to our own standards. For the best measuring stick, look to your past and to your potential. More often than not, when you commit to being your best, the victories will come anyway. 

                                           

Student Success Statement

                                          "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there."

                                                                                                      -Bo Jackson

Reflection: Always set the goals you actually want to achieve. Do everything you can to achieve your goal. Be careful not to aim for the impossible because unfortunately there is also the saying, "the higher you fly, the further you fall". The flight of Icarus can be an example.

             

                                                           

Student Success Statement

                         "You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

                                                                                                                     -Michael Phelps

Reflection: Limits are barriers that the human mind puts on you. Barriers can represent any problem, from sports to personal. They give you the sense of not progressing, of not being able to continue. What Phelps is trying to teach you is that those "limits" are simply illusions. The more effort put into your "dream", the more likely your able to surpass those barriers of doubt and hopelessness. 

                                                        

Student Success Statement

                                                     "Try a little harder to be a little better."

                                                                                               -Gordon B. Hinckley

Reflection: If you put more effort into your goals in life, you will see improvements. Life is about improving your strengths and weaknesses. Reading what Hinckley says, much of the time when he says "do better" he means in the context of your situation. He means try harder at improving, and try hard so that people will admire and respect you, and so on. 

                                                             

Student Success Statement

"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."

                                                                                                            -Thomas J. Watson

Reflection: Achieving excellence is relatively simple. You simply "quit" your bad habits and do your best in everything that you do. Focusing on improving your strength AND weaknesses is key to achieving excellence. The world is competitive so you must strive for the best and never settle for less. 

                                                          

Student Success Statement

                  “It’s not the will to win, but the will to PREPARE to win that makes the difference.”   
                                                                                                               -Paul Bear Bryant

Reflection: Having the motivation to succeed is one of the keys to success but preparation can also help you in achieving it faster and more efficiently. In life “winning” can be defined in many different ways but each of us has our own thoughts about what will bring us some measure of happiness and security. Each of these could be defined as "winning" in their own ways. 

                                          

Student Success Statement

“Righteous community unity starts with ONE upright soul, whether it is a community of family members, students, neighbors, teammates, or business associates. Unity conquers worthy pursuits more quickly with less effort than individual effort alone.”
                                                                                                        -Steve Haymore
Reflection: It only takes one person to share his ideas to others in order to grab their attention. Worthy goals are achieved more quickly if he has help from a community. 

Student Success Statement

                                                   Together Everyone  Achieves  More
                                                                                        -Anonymous

Reflection: Working as a team can be a really important skill to learn. If you try, anything is possible. If you don’t try you won’t know the outcome and improve upon it. Working as a team means having trust in one another and never giving up.
                                                       

Student Success Statement

                                                 "Work as a team to achieve your dream."

                                                                                                  -Sarah Real

Reflection: With teamwork, you can achieve tasks more efficiently. You divide the effort and multiplies the success. "Two heads are better than one" is a popular quote. A variety of ideas are not in the mind of one person. When people form effective team to work towards a common goal ideas are shared together. As a results of shared ideas, it speeds up the selection of possible solutions. "United we stand divided we fall".

Student Success Statement

  "Your mind is a garden,your thoughts are the seeds… You can grow flowers. Or you can grow weeds..."

                                                                                                                            -Anon

Reflection: You mind is capable of producing anything you plant on it. Your thoughts, your seeds,  could be negative or positive. It is inevitably your choice to choose what you want to plant, good thoughts or bad thoughts, flowers or weeds.

                                           

Student Success Statement

                                    “You will become as great as your dominant aspiration.”
                                                                                                   -James Allen

Reflection: Everyone has the capability of achieving what they most desire. It's up to them whether to work towards it or not. If they do, there efforts will pay off. 
                                                     

Student Success Statement

“A definite worthy goal, combined with a positive mental attitude (PMA), is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement,”

                                                                                         -Napoleon Hill

Reflection: If you put effort into a goal and always keep doing your best, you will achieve that goal. An example can be if you want to join a soccer team. If you really want to do it then you have to be positive about it and not give up and continue to try your best. Most of all you need to believe in your self.

                                                    

                                                       

Student Success Statement

                                                    "We become what we think about."

                                                                                            -Earl Nightingale

Reflection: We have the power to become whatever we want to be. If we put our minds to it, we can achieve our goal. We decide early in life just how our life will be. We spend the rest of our lives proving we were right.

                                                         

Student Success Statement

                                   "Good thoughts bear good fruit. Bad thoughts bear bad fruit"
                                                                                                    -James Allen

Reflection: If you have positive thoughts and apply those thoughts to your actions, then you can produce a positive outcome or a "good fruit". Studying for a test can be an example. If you work hard and study all the material, you have a better chance of scoring higher and getting all answers correct. If you have negative thoughts  and apply those to your actions, then you bear "bad fruit". 

                                                   

Student Success Statement

                              “I wasn't trying to leave a legacy, I was trying to do what was right.”

                                                                                                             -Dean Smith

Reflection: It is not always about winning or leaving behind a legacy or anything of that sort, but the important thing is that you do what is right. From the right actions that you commit, you'll become a legacy and win. So don't focus on leaving a mark- focus on doing what is right in order to then leave a mark. Dean himself says that it wasn't in his intentions to leave behind a legacy but his main goal was to what was right. Dean Smith has come a long way because of his mindset on choosing the right (and not on success), along with his team that won UNC National Championships.