The Man In The Arena

Here's the full exerpt of the quote I was talking about earlier. It's one of the most famous speechs made by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt back in 1910 in Paris, France. I absolutely loved it the very first time I read it. It was one of those Eureka! moment where everything just makes complete sense. What I find really amazing is that what was said almost a century ago still very much applies in this day and age. Here's the excerpt:

"It is not the critic who counts; nor 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 devotion; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at 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."