A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.” - Thomas Carlyle

   This student success statement from Carlyle is very meaningful. He used a simile in order to emphasize this quote. A rudder is a very useful object that helps maintain the boat going. It is a very significant part of a ship or boat. He reflects and compares this to an individual without a goal. If a person doesn’t have a goal, they won't achieve or go anywhere in life just like the ship without a rudder. In order to go somewhere and be successful in your future, you must have a goal to start with. Your goal(s) will take anywhere. A ship that has a rudder will move and go any place desired. It is practically the same thing. For instance, if you want to go to a great university such as UCLA or any other ones, you must begin with a goal. Your goal might be having straight A’s. This goal will then slowly develop and change you as an individual. You will than starting moving and moving and reach great places. A ship must have a rudder to go to high places as well such as across the ocean. You are the ship. Your goal is a rudder. You must have it, because it will help you in the future.This reflects to my goals, because one of my goals is to attend to a great university. That is my goal so I will slowly move towards that and accomplish it. That is why Thomas Carlyle stated this quote to help all of us to obtain a goal in order for us to be successful.

 

“ If I’ve got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I’m going to succeed. “ Dan Dierdorf

This student success statement by Dan Dierdorf is powerful. He demonstrates us that if you have the correct goals such as going to a specific college, then if you keep pursuing it , you will most likely accomplish those goals. If you do the right thing at all times, then you will succeed. For instance, if you write on your journey of a list of goals that are good, you should keep following your goals. Then everything will fall into line. In other words, everything will happen as you expected. If you want to go to UCLA, than you must pursue that goals by having good grades, community service hours, studying,etc. Later on the future, you will accomplish that goal and any other goals you have in mind. That is a key to success. The other part on what Dierdorf stated was significant in value. He states that one should always do the right thing, in which that would help you have a successful future. For instance, you are person who studies instead of being in parties. You are a person who never smokes or do alcohol. You are a person who is humble, productive, respectful, generous, have a good character, etc, then you will be successful. To be successful is doing the right things. Therefore, Dierdorf is correct.

Student Success Statement

       “ I trust that my hard work will pay off.” - Tyler Haws

This student success statement can be implied in your everyday life. Haws stated that he, as an individual, trust his hard work that he puts in that will pay off sooner or later. It doesn’t necessarily mean in sports but in anything. In sports, you must work very hard to win something out of it. Like Tyler, you must practice everyday, because at the end of the day, you will get something out of it. The significant key word in his quote is “trust”. You must be able to trust your hard work, because with your trust, you can do anything at the end of the day. With Tyler’s hard work, it actually really payed off for him. He went to BYU to play college basketball. He scored a lot of points per game! He was very successful in his basketball future. However, all of that doesn’t come from nothing. But it comes from hard work. Not only he was getting successful in basketball, but he was lucky enough to be part of the missionary in the Mormon Church. He always wanted that as a kid, therefore, he worked hard for that goal in order to achieve it. For example, if you want to be accepted in a challenging and great university/college, then you must work very hard for that. After the sacrifices, the hard work, straight A’s, etc, you have an extremely high probability to getting accepted in any university/ college you would love to go. All of this leads to working hard. Personally, I believe and trust that this quote can change lives including mines. I acknowledge the fact that I must work very hard in order to get accepted at my favorite university, UCLA. And if working hard means doing sacrifices, having straight A’s, volunteering, etc, then I will work hard so that hopefully in the future, it can pay off.

    “ In life as in football, you won’t go far, unless you know where the goalposts are.”

                                   By: Arnold H. Glasgow

This student success statement by Arnold is trying to tell us that we won’t go far in life unless you you set your goals and meet them. Metaphorically, those goals are the goalposts in football. Just like the sport, the ball won’t go far unless now exactly where the goalposts are and how far it’s from. As a person, you need to know how long are the goalposts are from you in order to meet the goals. For instance, if you don’t set your goals or not even meet them, you are extremely far from the goalposts. You need to know where they are to meet the goals. That is how to be successful in life. If you do know where your goalposts are and you write your goals and set them, you are closer than you think. You are close to meet the goals and accomplishing them. It is not only to meet the goals, but to accomplish them. That is what Arnold is trying to tell all of us. He compares our life as football for a better understanding about our goals. We need to set the goals, we write the goals, then little by little, we accomplish the goals.