Someone wrote me this quote a while back saying how "oh so inspired" they were about it. It didn't really hit me in the face just then but it did today for some reason.
I'm realising I'm slowly becoming a critic (who doesn't count) and it's not helping me. I need to strive to "Do the deed", no matter how many times I come short!
In the battle of life, it is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out where the strong man stumbled or where the doer of the deeds could have done better. 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 short again and again; because there is no effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, 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 know neither victory nor defeat.—Theodore Roosevelt
1 comment:
Good one for sure! Thanks for posting it.
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