President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) US President (1901-1909)

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong stumbled or where the doer of the deed 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. Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumphs 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 or defeat.

¶ Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, France (23 Apr 1910)

"Citizenship in the Republic," The Strenuous Life, vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt (1926)

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