Quote – It Is Not The Critic Who Counts
By Theodore Roosevelt

“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 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, because there is

no effort without error or shortcoming,

but who knows the 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 he fails while daring greatly,

so that his place shall never be with those

cold and timid souls who knew
neither victory nor defeat.”

—Theodore Roosevelt

Speech at the Sorbonne,
Paris, April 23, 1910