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A Quote by Theodore Roosevelt on critic, arena, man, victory, and defeat

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 in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly…who knows the 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 know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt : American statesman (26th US president: 1901-09)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
 
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Gonzalo : Gonzx side
10 months later
Gonzalo said

You couldn't be more RIGHT TEDDY!

philr : Chief Happiness Officer
12 months later
philr said

This is one of my all-time favorite quotes and I'm glad to see it here.

There are a couple wrong words in the version here that I hope someone can fix. The end of the last sentence should be  “…  with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

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