Accomplishments - Adapted by Mark Felling

Accomplishments

The greatest ideas will be shot down by those with the smallest minds.

Think big anyway.

What you spend years creating could be destroyed overnight.

Create anyway.

Give the best you have and it will never be enough.

Give your best anyway.

Success will win you false friends and genuine enemies.

Succeed anyway.

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.

Forgive them anyway.

Those most in need of help may attack viciously when it is offered.

Help them anyway.

If you are kind people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.

Be kind anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten tomorrow.

Do good anyway.

Honesty and sincerity make you vulnerable to deceptive people.

Be honest and sincere anyway.

If you find happiness, other's jealousy and envy will soon follow.

Be happy anyway.

 

Adapted by Mark Felling from the version found written on the wall in Mother Teresa's home for children in Calcutta which was adapted from "The Paradoxical Commandments" by Dr. Kent M. Keith written in 1968 as part of a booklet for student leaders.