| 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 | ||