TEN COMMANDMENTS OF WISDOM
Harvard University
Council
People are illogical and self-centered.
Love them any way.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good any way.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed any way.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good any way.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank any way.
The biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by smallest minds.
Think big any way.
People favour underdogs, but follow only the topdogs.
Fight for a few underdogs any way.
People really need help, but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people any way.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build any way.
Give the World the best you have and you will get kicked in the teeth.
Give the World the best you have any way.
–Collected
by Dr. R. Seshadri Naidu, Director, UGC – Academic Staff College, S. V.
University, Tirupati.