Kent M. Keith

Kent M. Keith (born in 1949 in Brooklyn), is an American writer and leader in higher education.

Quotes

• 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.
  • The Paradoxical Commandments, first published in The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council, Harvard Student Agencies (1968)