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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."
"Citizenship in a Republic," Theodore Roosevelt Speech at the
Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910 |
