The Paradoxical Commandments
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
poem by Kent M. Keith (1968)
Added by Lucian Velea
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Also see the following:
- quotes about women
- quotes about dogs
- quotes about beauty
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- quotes about future
- quotes about worry
- quotes about peace
- quotes about hate
1 Dan Costinas said on 26 December 2011: |
| Misattributed?! This motivational message, attributed to Mother Teresa, has been inscribed on the wall of her Children's Home in Calcutta. It seems that the original author is Kent M. Keith. |
2 Lucian Velea [webmaster] said on 22 February 2013: |
| You are right, it is explained here http://www.kentmkeith.com/mother_teresa.html |
3 Dan Costinas said on 22 February 2013: |
393 days to see that I was right. |
4 Lucian Velea [webmaster] said on 22 February 2013: |
| Good things come to those who wait. |
5 Dan Costinas said on 22 February 2013: |
| Something like waiting for Santa, isn't it? |
6 Paraficenusunt said on 19 November 2013: |
| When you do a good thing (for someone or because it is just the right thing to do) you just do it… never expect thanks. If you do, the good deed will expire soon! ✞Give and you'll be given! (D.S) ✞ |