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Bernita Hughes Elementary School

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A Great Expectations Model School
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Life Principles

May 5

• Problem-solving - creating solutions, finding answers.

• One doesn't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore for a very long time.
  
  
• The only place success comes before sweat is in the dictionary - and the road there is often under construction.
  

May 12

• Respect - feeling honor, allowing myself and others to do our personal best.
  
  
  The Four R's
  Respect yourself.
  Respect others.
  Respect your school.
  Respect the law.
  
  
• "I will speak ill of no man and speak the good I know of everybody."
  --Ben Franklin

• Responsibility - making the choice to be reliable and dependable.

• "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"
  --Eleanor Roosevelt

• "Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you."
  

  --Howard Ward Beecher
  

  
  You have brains in your head,
  you have feet in your shoes.
  You can steer yourself
  any direction that you choose.
  --Dr. Seuss

• Self-discipline - the ability to choose and control one's own actions.
  
  
• "Your life is determined by the choices you make."
  --Bill Rago
  
  
• Self-discipline is having control over your thoughts and actions.
  
  
• "I am the captain of my fate, and the master of my soul..."
  --William Earnest Henley
  
  
• "If we were supposed to talk more than we listen, we would have two mouths and one ear."
  --Mark Twain
  
  
• Service - giving of one's time and energies to help others.
  
  
• "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
  --John Wooden
  
  
• "Serving the needs of others is the light that brightens each day."
  --Douglas M. Lawson
  
  
• "As small as it may seem, a good deed is always worth doing."
  --Spark Matsunaga
  
  
• "One thing I know is the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."
  --Albert Schweitzer
  

• "Kindness is a language heard by deaf men and felt by blind men"
  --Mark Twain
  

• Sincerity -
  
  
• "Men's faces are easy to know, not their hearts."
  --Shakespeare
  
  

  A man is as great as the truth he speaks,
  As great as the help he gives,
  As great as the destiny he seeks,
  As great as the life he lives
  --C.E. Flynn

• Teamwork - work done by a group to accomplish a task.
  
  
• "I believe that the welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all."
  --Helen Keller
  
  
• Thankfulness - the act of being grateful; glad.
  
  
• "The most important prayer in the world is two words long - thank you."
  --Meister Eckehart
  
  
• "We ought to always give thanks to God."
  --Apostle Paul
  
  
• Tolerance - the ability to endure or adapt to unfavorable situations/people.
  
  
• "If we treat people the way they are, we make them worse.  If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming."
  --Goethe
  
  
• Understanding - see yourself as another sees you and you will begin to understand their viewpoint.
  
  
• "Never judge another man until you have walked a mile in his moccasins."
  --Native American Proverb
  
  
• "See yourself as another sees you and you will begin to understand their viewpoint."
  --365 Meditations for Teacher
  
  

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updated 05/05/08  jkb