This will always be one of my favorite quotes. I remind myself of it when I am not sure if what I am doing is good enough. If no one else is doing what I am doing for my team, my family, and my community, then its good to remember that my efforts are more than enough and that I dont need to listen that closely to all those who critique my work or my efforts. Unless someone is in the arena with you, dont take too much stock in what theyre saying. “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.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 00:03:26 +0000
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