Student Success Statement

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Reflection: This quote for today’s student success statement is about taking responsibility for yourself and not to blame others for your mistakes. An example to show more about what this quote means is if you are smoking with your friends and you get caught then you don’t blame it on your friends and say they would have hurt you or they pressured you to do it. You have control of what you do not anybody else. If someone tells you to do something that you know you shouldn’t be doing then you need to have the courage to say no and take control of what you do. If you do not have the courage to do that then you will be “pushed around” and told what to do the rest of your life all because you did not want to say no to someone. If you do do something bad then take the responsibility and do not blame anyone else for what you did. Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.