Student Success Statement

A Choice: Poverty or Prosperity

“I hated poverty. Poverty is more of a choice than anything else, and I can change that (poverty). It depends upon how hard I want to work, and I decided that I would change it.”

Dr. Ben Carson

This quote means that you can change your way of living if you are willing to work had hard. Be able to choose wisely what kind of future you would want because it will determine if you are going to be successful or live in poverty where you will be miserable. Just like Ben Carson hated his lifestyle because he lived in poverty and he felt very dumb next to his classmates. He knew that he didn’t want to live that way so he began to work really hard, his mother pushed him and had a very good successful future and his way of living is very different. If you are willing to work hard and push yourself then you can change and do better things in life. Be able to demonstrate that if you come from the lowest, then working hard will get you somewhere else that and change everything the whole way around. It doesn’t matter where you come from, the only thing that does matter is that you work hard to be able to lead yourself to success and change and make a difference. Make people around you proud.