Theodore Roosevelt

IT’S NOT THE CRITIC WHO COUNTS,
NOT THE ONE WHO POINTS OUT HOW THE STRONG MAN STUMBLES
OR HOW THE DOER OF DEEDS MIGHT HAVE DONE THEM BETTER.
THE CREDIT BELONGS TO THE MAN WHO IS ACTUALLY IN THE ARENA,
WHOSE FACE IS MARRED WITH SWEAT AND DUST AND BLOOD,
WHO STRIVES VALIANTLY, WHO ERRS AND COMES SHORT AGAIN AND AGAIN,
WHO KNOWS GREAT ENTHUSIASMS, THE GREAT DEVOTIONS, AND SPENDS HIMSELF
IN A WORTHY CAUSE, AND WHO, 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