Your Next Gift
The world is waiting….
Imagine what the world would be like if we all gave ourselves to create beautiful things that serve the needs of others. Imagine that world!
When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it’s time to turn out the lights.
Learn to live; live to learn; learn to serve; serve to earn.
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
An unused life is an early death.
When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.
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.
Question to Consider
Which “anyway” described above should you be doing anyway?
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him he gives him for mankind.
