Critics by Teddy

It is not the critic who counts,

nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,

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 and comes short again and again;

who knows great enthusiasms, 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 timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt


This slots in quite well with my other quote (Which I named the blog in reference to)

I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins.

I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd.

I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep.

I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Let them join the sheep.

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

- Og Mandino