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1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.

Love them anyway.

2. If you do good, people with accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.

Do good anyway.

3. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.

Succeed anyway.

4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.

Do good anyway.

5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.

Be honest and frank anyway.

6. The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest ideas.

Think big anyway.

7. People favor underdogs, but follow only topdogs.

Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.

Build anyway.

9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.

Help them anyway.

10. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.

Give the world the best you have anyway.

It all boils down to having a positive self-image and a secure base of operations. A positive concept of "self" is derived from inner conviction and consistency.

© copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, 2001 www.paradoxicalcommandments.com