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Lessons
for life
People are unreasonable, illogical 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 person with the biggest
ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind.

Think big anyway.
What you spend years building may be
destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help
but may attack if you help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the
world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth.
Give
the world the best you’ve got anyway.


Dr. Kent M. Keith

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