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“ 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.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”
― Max Lucado, He Still Moves Stones: Everyone Needs a Miracle

“Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.”
― Max Lucado, He Still Moves Stones: Everyone Needs a Miracle

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right....”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential

“It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.”
― John C. Maxwell

“A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.”
― John C. Maxwell, Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success

“The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential

“Successful people do daily what unsuccessful people do occasionally. They practice daily disciplines. They implement systems for their personal growth. They make it a habit to maintain a positive attitude. At”
― John C. Maxwell, Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership

“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“The reality is that you will never get much done unless you go ahead and do it before you are ready.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential

“Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.”
― John C. Maxwell

“One of the greatest problems people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge isolated situations in their lives and label them as failures. Instead, they need to keep the bigger picture in mind.”
― John C. Maxwell, Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success

“The goal of confrontation should be to help, not to humiliate.”
― John C. Maxwell, Be a People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships

“Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“You cannot change your life until you change something you do every day.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential

“Nobody achieves anything great by giving the minimum. No teams win championships without making sacrifices and giving their best.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential

“You could use the 80/20 rule. Give 80 percent of your effort to the top 20 percent (most important) activities. Another way is to focus on exceptional opportunities that promise a huge return. It comes down to this: give your attention to the areas that bear fruit.”
― John C. Maxwell, How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.”
― John C. Maxwell, Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success