| "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, and 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 the 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 know neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt April 23, 1910 from the speech "Citizenship
in a Republic."
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