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A Servant Attitude
A Servant Attitude
John R. W. Stott, The Preacher's Portrait, Some New Testament Word Studies, (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publ. Co., 1961), pp. 100ff
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 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 with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men 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 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. |