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"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who
points out how the strong man stumbled, 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 and comes short again and again; who knows the great
enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause;
Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and
who, at the worst, 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."
~President Theodore Roosevelt
Speech at the Sorbonne
Paris, France
April 23, 1910
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