Thought Provoking: 6/12/07

A friend of mine reminded me of a quote from Teddy Roosevelt. I would have loved growing up in a time where our world leaders spoke like this and truly aspired to live and lead by such high ideals. Very thought provoking!

In the Arena

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or whether the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worth cause, who at the 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 know neither victory nor defeat."


-Teddy Roosevelt, Paris, France, April 1910