The Man in the Arena
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, who 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 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 neither know victory nor defeat.
by Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt: excerpt from the speech “Citizenship in a Republic” (23 April 1910) at the Sorbonne in Paris, France
Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt, Junior was born on 27 October 1858 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He became a soldier, a writer, and the twenty-sixth President of the United States of America (1901 - 1909). Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt, Junior passed on at 60 years of age on 6 January 1919 in Oyster Bay, New York, United States of America.
Image shown: Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt, Junior (1885)
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, who 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 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 neither know victory nor defeat.
by Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt: excerpt from the speech “Citizenship in a Republic” (23 April 1910) at the Sorbonne in Paris, France
Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt, Junior was born on 27 October 1858 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He became a soldier, a writer, and the twenty-sixth President of the United States of America (1901 - 1909). Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt, Junior passed on at 60 years of age on 6 January 1919 in Oyster Bay, New York, United States of America.
Image shown: Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt, Junior (1885)
