True Words

[Mr S]

Teddy Roosevelt:

"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."