In the Arena

I heard this quote last night while watching a TED talk.  Theodore Roosevelt’s “The Man in the Arena.”  This should be posted somewhere where you have to walk by it every day.

“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 up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself on a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who is at worst, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory or defeat.”

Amen.