Daring Greatly.

[Woodstock, New York]

*

It is not

the critic

who counts;

not the man

who points out 

how or where

the doer of deeds 

could have done 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

in the end

the 

triumph of high achievement,

and 

who at the worst,

if he fails,

at least

fail while

daring 

greatly,

so that 

his place shall 

never be with those

cold and timid souls

who neither 

know

victory

nor

defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

*