For several days I have looked for a resolution for the new year -- I think that the best I can do is to try to replace criticism, where it can be replaced, with action. I wish that this was some great epiphany; but, to be honest, it is inspired by an old quote I came across: 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 them 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, who comes short again and again, 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 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 fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. - T. Roosevelt
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 01:52:15 +0000
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