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"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 actually in 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 for 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 - "Citizenship
in a Republic," Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
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