These ten principles were first articulated by Kent Keith as a student at Harvard in the 1960s.
Be honest and frank anyway..
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Do good anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Succeed anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Do good anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Love them anyway.
The first five Paradoxical Commandments: People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Now, here are his commandments, the philosophy behind them, and the stories that bring them to life.
They even served as a source of inspiration for Mother Teresa.
Since then, unbeknownst to him, they were quoted, circulated, and appropriated by countless people around the World and back again.
These ten principles were first articulated by Kent Keith as a student at Harvard in the 1960s