SPEECH:A VOTE OF THANKS DELIVERED BY THE PRINCIPAL OF A SCHOOL TO THE OUT-GOING STUDENTS

Good Evening.

I stand unequivocally with ecstasy, honour and pleasure to speak for this wonderful occasion, just as i have been asked to.

At this verge, i drop felicity to each and everyone of you and your parents.

Your tremendous achievements in this scale of Scholarship, Leadership, Community Service, and Character are being honored here tonight by your induction into this prestigious society.

An honor such as this is a wonderful route for the school and community to recognize and celebrate the choices, and sometimes the commitments, you have made throughout your endeavours.

But I adhered that what should  make you and your parents the most elation is not the actual honor itself, but what you had to do to get it. As William Wordsworth said, "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." Any recognition is just the icing on the cake, not to be expected but definitely to be jubilate and enjoyed.

More so, I challenge you not to rest on your appraisals but to ride on to strive towards even superior goals.


The four requirements for membership in which you have excelled: scholarship, leadership, community service, and character were not chosen at random. They are the staple of a fulfilled and fulfilling life.

The most momentous fact to remember is that each of these characteristics are the sum of many individual decisions. They encompass a positive attitude backed by purpose. The only route to bring this purpose to achievement is to take actions infinitesimally, everyday. At the end, they all add up. My optimism for you is that you will cultivate this attitude backed by purpose in your own life.

Scholarship is much more than just getting straight distinctions.

It is a life-long love of learning. In the end it is a sum of small choices. Each time you take it stiffly upon yourself that you WANT to learn something, the experience will be so rewarding that the next time becomes easier.

Soon learning becomes a tendency. At that juncture, your desire to learn makes getting A's easier while taking the focus off of grades.

The knowledge can still be hard to gain, but knowing you've taken annexation of a difficult subject is an awesome reward. Suddenly the world around you becomes richer, full of learning opportunities.

Leadership is not about being elected or arrogated to an office. The office does not lecture someone how to be a leader. Leadership is an attitude worked over time.

Are you one to stand up for what you believe in and 'face the music' even when that music appears to be obnoxious? Do you have a purpose and follow that purpose to get the ends you want? Do you have a vision? These are all pertinent of a questions that true leaders answer in the corroborative.
But how do you become a leader?

Each little decision you make takes you one step closer. Remember the goal is not to an acquisition of power, but to get your vision and your purpose across. Leaders without visions can be likened to driving in a strange town without a road map neither a specificity of destination: you are going to wind up somewhere, it just might not be in the corroborative part of the town.

Many see nor endorse community service as a means to an end. Some might see it as a way to get service points while socializing, while others may envisage it as an unlucky (and often inconvenient) necessity of high school life. But is that an apodictic entailment of a community service?

Once again true community service is a disposition. Are you doing it for the right reasons? It is not an intent, of my utterance that there won't be brighter moments of relaxation when you would rather sleep your mood out than paint your mood out.

What I'm insinuating is that in the eventual time, when it is all accomplished, and you are once again tranquilly rested , you can recall and be tagged to reality that you did something worthwhile, something up its sleeve. That you succoured your fellow human in some way. Just dig commemoration to what William Shakespeare said, "No man is an island entire of himself."


Nevertheless, disposition.

If there is at all, one thing that is substantiated by your daily choices, it is obviously regarded to your disposition.

Moreover, i truly believe what Albert Einstein said, "The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out."

What do you do if it happens that not even a single soul is around? The teacher steps out of the room for a moment while you are taking a test after school. You know exactly where in your notes the answer to question 34 is. Do you look? slighted opportunity of being apprehended!

The answer meted out to this question is the amour of your genuine disposition.

For while being humble, respectful and responsible when others are watching is important, being true to yourself is tantamount.

Finally, these decisions on everyday privacy, will eventually unravel the misery behind the genuineness of your disposition to the world.

All in all, are making the tough choices worth it?

Affirm.

While it would be alleviating to slide through life without a purpose, without a encryption , it would not be accomplishing. Only by setting up intricate or even an enigmatic goals and in achieving them, can we find true self-worth.?

One final thing, every person's goals are of difference, and what comes easy to one may be delicate for another. However, do not restrain or either set up strangulation to others' dreams. This is an evinced way to know that you aren't working towards fulfilling your own.

In conclusion, I am once again re-dropping felicitation to you for this tangible honor. You are the best of the best. Make merriments, gratify and most significantly, grant yourself a big time enjoyment and remember as what the Author said in "Strange by The River" he said, "Life is a promise; fulfill it."