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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
    Sam Levenson
    “For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
    For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
    For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
    For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
    For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.
    ...
    We leave you a tradition with a future.
    The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.
    People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.
    Never throw out anybody.

    Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
    As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

    Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.”
    Sam Levenson, In One Era & Out the Other

  • #3
    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    Plato

  • #4
    J.K. Rowling
    “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #5
    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    Henry James

  • #6
    Mother Teresa
    “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #7
    Mother Teresa
    “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #8
    Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to
    “Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
    George Sand

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #11
    Anne Frank
    “No one has ever become poor by giving.”
    Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play

  • #12
    Audrey Hepburn
    “The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #13
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #14
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #15
    Rick Riordan
    “But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”
    Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

  • #16
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #17
    Kathryn Stockett
    “All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.”
    Kathryn Stockett, The Help

  • #18
    Lao Tzu
    “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
    Lao-Tzu

  • #19
    Aesop
    “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
    Aesop

  • #20
    Jarod Kintz
    “I want to be the kind of person that kind people like and want to be like.”
    Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

  • #21
    Kahlil Gibran
    “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Essential Kahlil Gibran: Aphorisms And Maxims

  • #22
    Kahlil Gibran
    “To belittle, you have to be little.”
    Kahill Gibran, The Prophet

  • #23
    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    Desmond Tutu

  • #24
    Steve Maraboli
    “How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #25
    Mother Teresa
    “I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
    Mother Teresa, A Gift for God: Prayers and Meditations – Private Letters Revealing Her Abiding Faith, Wisdom, and Compassion

  • #26
    Mother Teresa
    “Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #27
    Albert Einstein
    “The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #28
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    “We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

  • #29
    Steve Maraboli
    “One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Say, "I love you", "I'm sorry", "I appreciate you", "I'm proud of you"...whatever you're feeling. Send random texts, write a cute note, embrace your truth and share it...cause a smile today for someone else...and give plenty of hugs.”
    Steve Maraboli

  • #30
    Ray Bradbury
    “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451



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