PARADOXICAL COMMANDMENTS OF LEADERSHIP

People are 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 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/women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest minds: do good 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 them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth: give the world the best you have anyway.