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“When obedience becomes our goal, it is no longer an irritation; instead of a stumbling block, it becomes a building block.”

James E. Faust

Reflection: It shouldn’t be a choice to be obedient you should already know that it’s important because it shows that you do what you’re told without having it being repeated. The more you are obedient the easier it’ll become and it will be a casual thing for you to do and you will become better at it every day.

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“Obedience is the great test of life.”

Thomas S. Monson

Reflection: Obedience is the great test of life because it may seem that it won’t affect you in any way but it can. It show’s if you are respectful and if you know what you should or shouldn’t do. It can ruin something if you aren’t obedient. It can come with consequences.

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“Obedience … is the primary object of all the sound education.”

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Reflection: Being obedient is important because it shows that you are respectful and you do what you are told. You wouldn’t want someone to think you are rude so it is important to be kind.

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“Obedience sums up our entire duty”

Housea Ballou

Reflection: It’s important to be obedient because it makes you look respectful and others will see you in a good proper manner. For example you are with your mom and friend and your mom says go clean your room before you go outside and you say no then your friend will realize that you’re rude and don’t obey your parents. It’s important to respect your elders and if you do respect them then eventually you will get rewarded.

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"The more obedient we are, the more freedom we have."

Boyd K. Packer

Reflection: Its best to be obedient to our elders because it will show that we have respect. If we have respect our elders will trust more and allow us to do stuff and be free. Its important to be respectful top our elders.

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“Early to bed and to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

Benjamin Franklin

Reflection: It’s important for us to get our rest at night because when we rise early in the morning we should be ready for a busy day of learning. We want to make sure that we are wide awake and our brain has gotten its rest that it needs to learn and educate ourselves with brighter things every day.

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“A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.”

Hippocrates

Reflection: People should know that their valuable possession doesn’t have to be some type of object like an electronic, because your most valuable possession is your health. Without that you wouldn’t be alive and doing what you do now.

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“Courage is being scared to death and doing the right thing anyway.”

Chae Richardson

Reflection: You should always know that in any difficult situation you are in the best thing to do is choose the right. For example you got your report card and your grades are bad and you know that if your parents see them they’ll be mad and punish you, you should still tell them because it’s better than lying. It’s better to face your consequences now than later.

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“Act well your part; there all honor lies.”

Alexander Pope

Reflection: It’s important that you treat others with respect and you don’t make them think of you as a bad person. If you respect them they will respect you the same way as you treat them. 

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“Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush. It can color any situation.”

Anonymous

Reflection: Attitude can be good or bad. It usually depends on what you’re doing or who you’re with to define what type of attitude you have. Never misunderstand someone’s personality with their attitude because you’re personality defines who you’re and attitude depends who you are talking to.

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“He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.”

A Proverb

Reflection: Always make sure that who you hang around with gives you a positive effect in your life because if not you can suffer many consequences with the people that choose the wrong. An example is when you meet new people make sure they are nice and don’t choose the wrong.

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“You can’t hire someone else to do your push-ups for you.”

Jim Rohn

Reflection: Example: You can’t make people do your shift at work because it’s YOUR shift not theirs. It’s important for someone to learn do stuff on their own because you’re not always going to have someone to help you. You won’t learn from anything because you aren’t doing anything. You have to learn not to depend on people because  you won’t always have them by your side.

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Reflection: It’s important to keep promises that you’ve made. Like Abraham Lincoln promised his sick mother as a child that he would never drink whiskey or smoke tobacco as long as he lives. Then she passed away. He went on a trip with a man and he would ask him if he would drink with him and smoke. But Abraham said no and kept his promise. I think the thing that kept him strong enough to do that was the thought of his mother. It relates to me because if I ever make a promise I should keep it.

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“Kindness is the essence if greatness.”

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Reflection: It’s important to be kind because it is a good thing to do in life. It’s something that people can see how you are and not judge you. When your kind it will slowly end up rewarding you. 

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“Visualization-Imagination: What you see is what you get”

Anonymous

Reflection: If you imagine yourself doing what you have dream of your whole life and you work hard through the way you will deserve what you. Never give up on what you want to become. Because if you don’t see it you won’t achieve it.

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“Manners maketh man.”

William of Wykeham

Reflection: It’s important for a person to know their manners because without manners people might think you don’t have respect. That’s why it’s good to teach children young what’s the right thing to say when people are being respectful or kind. An example is like if someone opens the door for you, you will kindly reply with “Thank you.”

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Regarding Successful Living:

“There is no giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps.”

Anon

Reflection: It isn’t always  going to be easy to accomplish a goal whether it’s a long term or short term goal it involve little things that you can do to get closer to the accomplishment of the goal. For example if you want to own a bakery one day you need to know recipes and how to bake. Then you need to take classes to learn more. You’ll then have to find a place where you can have your bakery. You will also need employees. As you can see by this example there is many steps to owning a bakery and you accomplish them little by little.

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“Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”

William Penn

Reflection: You do what you think is best for you and not for others, because if you come to a decision were someone disagree’s with you then you have to do what you think is right it doesn’t matter what they say and tell you to do because you’re the only person that knows what’s good for yourself. You also have to think about any consequences because if everyone is up for it ,it doesn’t mean that it’s the right thing because you never know what type of consequences that decision can bring.

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Cowardice asks the question ‘Is it safe?’

Expediency asks the question ‘Is it politic?’

Vanity asks the question ‘Is it popular?’

But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Reflection: In life there will be many times were you come to a difficult decision. At that point in your life you will have to decide what to do whether it does or doesn’t benefit your loved ones but what’s the right decision for you and what you believe in.

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“Let us have faith that right makes right, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.” 

– Abraham Lincoln

Reflection: Always have faith in the decisions that you decide in your daily life. Always believe in what you think is right for you and your future that you want. Make sure you choose what feels right for you.