Twenty-Five Lessons for Life
1. There is no free lunch. Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for.
2. Set goals and work quietly and systematically toward them.
3. Assign yourself.
4. Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
5. Don't be afriad of taking risks or of being criticized.
6. Take parenting and family life seriously and insist that those you work and who represent you do.
7. Remember that your wife is not your mother or your maid, but your partner and friend.
8. Forming families is serious business.
9. Be honest.
10. Remeber and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
11. Sell the shadow for the substance.
12. Never give up.
13. Be confident that you can make a difference.
14. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind.
15. Don't be afraid of hard work or teaching your children to work.
16. "Slow down and live."
17. Choose your friends carefully.
18. Be a can-do, will-try person.
19. Try to live in the present.
20. Use your political and economic power for the community and others less fortunate.
21. Listen for "the sound of the genuine" within yourself and others.
22. You are in charge of your own attitude.
23. Remeber your roots, your history, and the forebears' shoulders on which you stand.
24. Be reliable. Be faithful. Finish what you start.
25. Always remember tha you are never alone.
This is a list I pulled from a book titled, The Measure of Our Success, by Marian Wright Edelman.
