From my dear nephew Peter Allen, who adapted this quote to fit my circumstance. It is from Theodore Roosevelts speech Citizen in a Republic delivered at the Sorbonne, Paris, France on April 23, 1910 : It is not the critic who counts; not the woman who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the woman 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 herself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if she fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:06:07 +0000
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