Mother Teresa

"People are often unreasonable, irrational and self-centered:
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives:
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies:
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere, people may deceive you:
Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight: 
Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous:
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow:
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough:
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

For you see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God:
It was never between you and them anyway."