“It is not the critic who counts; not the wo|man who points out how the strong wo|man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

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The credit belongs to the wo|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,

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because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends themself in a worthy cause;  


 

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who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if s|he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

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