by Dr. Kent M. Keith
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 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.
If better is possible, then good is not enough.