"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
them better. The credit belongs to
the man who is actually in the
arena, whose face is marred by
dust and sweat and blood; who
strives valiantly; who errs, who
comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without
error and shortcoming; but who does
actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows 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 fails while
daring greatly, so that his place
shall never be with those cold and
timid souls who neither know victory
nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
1910 Copyright