Your Good Name

"Your name is a diamond; make sure it shines"

Sergio Tovalin

(HPHS 2009)

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Etiquette Quotations

Be Great

Students, what makes a person great?

" He is not great who is not greatly good."

William Shakespeare 

Do Good-Be Kind

"I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again."

Etienne de Grellet

Good Company vs Bad Company

"It's better to be alone than to be in bad company."

ANON

Bad company

Dr. "J" Julius Erving

You're a great basketball player, but I have the feeling as I read about you that it's always been important for you to be a good person, to be a well rounded person, as well.

“I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence. I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life. And I remember hearing her say hundreds, thousands of times, ‘You don't have to work that hard to try to be a good person, just do it.’ “

“I think she would add to that, even if there are a lot of things in life that you can't do, this is something that you can. This is a do-able thing. All it requires is programming your attitude properly and relating to people, as you would want to have them relate to you.”

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Your Opportunities

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes"

Benjamin Disraeli

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The Good Life

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."

Socrates