“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong
man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The
credit belongs to the man who is actuallyin the arena, whose face is
marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs
and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort
without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms,
the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at
the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and
who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

Thoughts?

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