To the “man in the arena”

Posted in "Man in the arena", Courage, by mskaggs on September 2nd, 2007

“It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points 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 knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows 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, 1910

If you’d like to read the speech in it’s entirety, here’s a link: www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html.