| The
Paradoxical Commandments I was mailed a copy of this from one of our customers - as is - feel free to copy. |
This poem was written by Kent M. Keith and the correct title
is:
The Paradoxical Commandments
These 10 maxims have been mistakenly
attributed to Mother Teresa because they were found engraved on the wall of the
home for children in Calcutta, India. In fact,
the 10 maxims were written by Kent Keith in 1968, when he was 19, a sophomore at
Harvard College. Kent copyrighted them and
included them in a 65-page booklet published for high school student leaders.
It had a distribution of about 30,000.
| 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 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 persons with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest persons 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 them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway. |
Another version: People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; |
