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  • #1
    Kent M. Keith
    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

  • #2
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #3
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #4
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer

  • #5
    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #6
    Karen E. Quinones Miller
    “When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.”
    Karen E. Quinones Miller

  • #7
    Richard P. Feynman
    “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
    Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

  • #8
    Criss Jami
    “The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #9
    Edward Everett Hale
    “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
    Edward Everett Hale

  • #10
    Steve Maraboli
    “People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #11
    “Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.”
    Robert Strauss

  • #12
    Criss Jami
    “Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.”
    Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

  • #13
    Criss Jami
    “The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #14
    “Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.”
    Bill Wilson

  • #15
    Alice Sebold
    “No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
    Alice Sebold, Lucky

  • #16
    Roopleen
    “The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.”
    Roopleen

  • #17
    Homer Hickam
    “I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.”
    Homer Hickam, Rocket Boys

  • #18
    Archimedes
    “Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.”
    Archimedes, The Works of Archimedes

  • #19
    “The wishbone will never replace the backbone”
    Will Henry

  • #20
    Jefferson Smith
    “There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.”
    Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

  • #21
    Roopleen
    “To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.”
    Dr Roopleen

  • #22
    T.F. Hodge
    “Life is short only if you are not living your purpose.”
    T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

  • #23
    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “When it comes to fighting for your dreams, be a dragon. Breathe fire.”
    Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

  • #24
    Heidi Schulz
    “Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Don't let anything get in your way.”
    Heidi Schulz, The Pirate Code

  • #25
    Lao Tzu
    “Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #26
    Steve Chandler
    “Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.”
    Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be

  • #27
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Believe in Your Heart

    Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #28
    Dan    Brown
    “Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”
    Dan Brown, Inferno

  • #29
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
    Rumi

  • #30
    Steve Maraboli
    “Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free



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