Student Success Statement

“Kindness is the essence of greatness.”

-Joseph B. Wirthlin

Most people know that being kind is the most easiest thing a person can do.  It doesn’t cost anything, it makes us feel good, it allows us to become better people.  Sometimes, when people become great, they forget to stay humble and down to earth.  What this quote is trying to say is that in order to be seen as great, we need to be kind.  Kind to ourselves and kind to others.  If you are the fastest runner in the world, for example, and you are well-known.  You are famous and have a lot of money because you run incredibly fast.  Do you think you would still be so  well-known and famous if you were stuck-up and cocky?  Life is about being grateful for what you have and about never forgetting where you came from.  It is always going to be easy to be kind.  People must remember that being kind makes us into who we are, whether we are kind with ourselves or whether we are kind with other.