Isaac Asimov (Isaac Asimov, born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov; January 2, 1920, Petrovichi, Shumyachsky district, Smolensk region, Russian SFSR, - April 6, 1992, New York, U.S.) was an American science-fiction writer popularizer of…
Commandments of Mother Teresa
We will begin the series from publication of the Commandments of Mother Teresa (1910-1997), a catholic nun who dedicated all her life to creation of schools, shelters, hospitals for poor and seriously ill children and grown-up people notwithstanding to their nationality and confession. Mother Teresa is the possessor of the Nobel Prize for “Rendering the Assistance to the Afflicted”.Ten Commandments of Mother Teresa
1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centred — Love them anyway.
2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. — Do good anyway.
3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies — Succeed anyway.
4. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable — Be honest and frank anyway.
5. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight — Build anyway.
6. 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.
7. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow – Do good anyway.
8. People favour underdogs but follow only top dogs — Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them — Help people anyway.
10. Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth — Give the world the best you have anyway.
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Quotes from books by Isaac Asimov
Wisdom of the Great
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Simple commandments of Janusz Korczak
Wisdom of the Great
Janusz Korczak (Janusz Korczak; autonym – Hersh Henryk Goldszmit; 22 July 1878 –, Warsaw — 6 August 1942, Treblinka).Poland gave to the world Janusz Korczak – the talented educator, writer and medical doctor. This…
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Advice of “Wise Elder” Laozi
Wisdom of the Great
Laozi (Laozi, Old Child, Wise Elder) is a legendary philosopher-thinker who lived in the VI-Vth centuries B.C.E. He is considered to be the author of the Tao–te Ching (The Book of the Way and Its Virtue) - classic Taoist…