Honesty

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Honesty is always the best policy. Employers need to know that they can trust you with everything from company credits to trade secrets. How can you work with honesty? You demonstrate integrity every day that you do your own homework and resist the temptation to cheat on exams.

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What is honesty?

Honesty is telling the truth

Honesty is straight forward conduct

Honest is being sincere, truthful,

Trustworthy, honorable, fair genuine, and

Loyal with integrity.

You are being honest when you…

Do your homework

Tell a friend the truth

Explain the real reason you didn’t turn in upir homework

Keep your eyes on your own paper

Clean up your room after making a promise

Give the cashier the extra money she gave you by mistake.

Write a report in your own words instead of copying

Admit you made the mistake          

Keep a friend’s secret

Turn in a wallet full of money that you found.

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Choose the right

Student Success Statement

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

-Margaret Chase Smith

Reflection

I completely agree with this statement. Right will always be right even if others think it is not. For example, if everyone at your school was to be using drugs that would not make it any less wrong. If someone chose the right and continue to live without the use of illegal drugs that would show that that person has good character. If everyone at your school is bulling someone don’t join in, instead do what’s right and find a way to help the bullied student. If others don’t agree with what you are doing, it won’t matter because you will feel it in your conscience that you are doing what is right. 

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Student success statement

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

-Robert E. Lee

Reflection

I agree with Robert E. Lee choosing the right is easy. If you did something wrong there is still time to change and do right so that you can clear your conscience. Living with a guilty conscience is torturous. You will never feel bad when you choose to do what is right. 

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Choose the right

Student Success Statement

“I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in doing,

Than to incur the reproach of our conscience and posterity.”

n  Robert E. Lee

Reflection

I myself believe this statement. Doing what is right won’t always be the easiest thing, sometimes we will have to endure the consequences. One of the worst feelings is, knowing what was right and knowing that you deliberately chose not to do it. For example if you see someone in desperate need of money or even food that you have, I feel it is better to help out that person with a little amount of money or some food than to not and have a guilty conscience

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Student Success Statement

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small

 Matters compared to what lies within us”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reflections

What I interpret this quote to be, it is not important how you get there but that you do it rightfully. If you became successful by choosing the wrong your conscience won’t feel good. The end does not justify the mean. Pave a road that you would like to walk through. If you are thinking about becoming successful or even winning a championship game at all cost you need to think more carefully. Winning through wrong means will never feel like a true win. 

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Alex Schwazer

Alex schwazer was the gold medal champion the Olympic race walk. He was later banned for using drugs. He stated he felt relieved that he was caught. In his own words, “I couldn't take it anymore”.  He gave a tear filled press conference admitting his use of illegal substances.

Reflection

Alex Schwazer chose do the wrong and for that he was banned for the Olympics. The good thing is that he recognizes that he did wrong. His conscience was hurting him. Having to live with the fact that he cheated to win a gold medal must have been hard on him. Perhaps if he didn't use the drugs he might have still won it but now he will never know. If anything he would have been able to say he did his best and did it honestly and fairly.

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Student Success Statement

“You must never be fearful about what you

  are doing when it is right.”

Rosa Parks

Reflection

I believe that Rosa Parks speaks the truth. When you are doing the right there is nothing to fear because nothing bad can come of it. You can only be rewarded for doing the right. However remember that you should do the right because it is the right thing to do and not for the rewards. In contrast however if you are doing something illegal you will always have to fear the consequences of your choices. Listen to your conscience when it tells you not to do something.

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Student success statement

“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self- esteem, and personal satisfaction.”

-         Margaret Thatcher

Reflection

Margaret is listing some of the rewards there are to doing what is right. I say rewards because nothing bad can come from doing what is right. They may not be immediate but after constantly choosing to do what is right they will become more apparent. Remember that the key is perseverance, even states that it will not be easy. The quickest reward for choosing the right is personal satisfaction. For example even if you get all the answers right on a test that you cheated you will not have the satisfaction of getting 98 percent while not cheating.  

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Two grandparents lock child for six years in the bathroom

Summary: Two grandparents from Dyton Ohio lock their granddaughter in the Bathroom for six years. They allowed her outside only when time to go to school came. They fed her inconsistent meals. They gave her only a Blanket to use for her to sleep. The door leading outside the bathroom was reinforced by drawers. The only exception for which they let the little girl out was when relatives visited. They have been charged with a first degree kidnapping felony punishable for up to ten years in prison and third degree child felony punishable for up to five years.

Reflection

What these grandparents did was completely and utterly wrong. They claim that the granddaughter was unruly even though psychologists have said she was normal. The punishment was far too extreme. They chose to do wrong and now they are paying the consequences rightfully so

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Student Success Statement

“If it is not right, do not do it; If it

Is not true, do not say it.”

-Marcus Aurelius

Reflection

This saying by Marcus Aurelius goes a back to the foundation that is choosing the right. Do things because they are the right thing to do. Do not do things that are wrong. This quote is especially powerful because it was said by a Roman Emperor. Follow his good example and commit yourself to choosing the right.

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Student Success statement

“To know what is right

And not to do it is the

Worst cowardice”

-Confucius

Reflection

I believe that this statement is true. The worst cowardice is not something as simple as refusing to perform incredible and dangerous stunts. If you know recognize what is right and do the wrong instead then that is being a coward. Choose the right, be brave even when its not the most popular thing to do.

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Student Success Statement

“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the three magic keys to living your life with integrity.”

-         W. Clement Stone

Reflection

Don’t follow the crowed; follow the path that does what is right. If someone wants to do something illegal and asks you for your cooperation in it, you should have the courage to tell them that you are not interested in such activities. Don’t stay in denial and think that just because everyone else is doing it, that makes it right. You have to realizes that wrong is always wrong and its popularity matters not. Learn to do what’s right simply because it is the right thing to do

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