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ANYWAY
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.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down
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.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.
These ten principles were first articulated by Kent Keith as a student at Harvard in the 1960's. Since then, unbeknownst to him, they were quoted, circulated, and appropriated by countless people - politicians and academics, civic and religious leaders, businesspeople, students, and nonprofit organizations. They were taped to computer monitors, refrigerator doors, and to the walls of Mother Teresa's children's home in Calcutta. The version posted by Mother Teresa included the following ending:
You see... in the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.
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