GREAT EXPECTATIONS Life Principles | |||
Principle | Definition | ||
Citizenship | behaving in a responsible manner as a citizen of a community | ||
Commitment | Keeping a promise or pledge | ||
Common Sense | thinking before acting; using good judgement | ||
Compassion | ability to share another's feelings or idea | ||
Cooperation | working together | ||
Courage | strength to act even when afraid or uncertain | ||
Courtesy | consideration, cooperaton, and generosity | ||
Curosity | deisre to learn, to explore, to investigate | ||
Dedication | binding oneself to a course of action | ||
Effort | doing one's best in an endeavor | ||
Empathy | capacity for participating in another feelings or ideas | ||
Esprit De Corps | devotion among members of a group for each other and teh group's purpose | ||
Flexibility | ability to make adjustments or alter plans | ||
Forgiveness | act of forgiving for an offense; pardoning | ||
Fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage | ||
Friendship | caring for and trusting others | ||
Honesty | truthfulness | ||
Humanitarianiam | promotion of human welfare and socal reform | ||
Humility | being humber, not proud or haughty, not arrogant or assertive | ||
Initiative | taking action; originating new ideas | ||
Integrity | acting according to a sense of right and wrong | ||
Justice | being fair and uphoding what is right | ||
Loyalty | faithfulness to another | ||
Optimism | an inclination to put themost faoralbe construction upon actions and happenings or to ancicipate the best possible outcome | ||
Patience | enduring harship, difficulty, or inconvenience with self-control | ||
Patriotism | love for or devotion to one's country | ||
Perserverance | ability to persist to contiue striving to the end | ||
Problem-Solving | creating solutions; finding answers | ||
Propriety | standard of what is socailly accetable in conduct or speech | ||
Resiliency | recovering from or adjusting easily to misfortune or change | ||
Respect | paying proper attentio or showing consideration to others | ||
Responsibility | making the choice to be reliable and dependable | ||
Self-Discipline | the ability to choose and control one's own actions | ||
Service | giving of one's time and energies to help others | ||
Sincerity | honesty of mind; freedom from hypocrisy | ||
Temperance | moderation in action, thought, or feeling |