The Man In The Arena

(Again I found this great quote while swimming around the internet and thought I should share it with you. We constantly have to deal with critics who do little more that point fingers at those actually doing actions, as if fingerpointing created any kind of value. And many times we find their comments disheartening to our actions. The truth is simple and it has been spoken before. )

"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 –