Mother Teresa Said It Best

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

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, 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, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

-this version is credited to Mother Teresa

Many of the great things that my office does for our patients are done outside the view of almost everyone. If we tell people what we have done, they frequent will say something like:

"People will tell others and you will probably have many new patients."

My response usually is: "We don't to the right thing because we expect to get something of value in return. We do the right thing BECAUSE it's the right thing.