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Nov. 17th, 2006
It is not the critic who counts -- not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better. The credit belongs to the one who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood... Who strives valiantly... who errs and comes short again and again... who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause -- and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena" Speech (April 23, 1910)
Theodore Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena" Speech (April 23, 1910)