When I came across this excerpt from a T. Rooslevelt speech I thought of none other then William Samuels. I believe that as the month of March unfolds it relevance will become even more apparent.
"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 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 up short
again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming,
but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself
for 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 he fails while
daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid
souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Below are additional quotations related to the more famous and later quote.
These quotes taken from a cdrom - The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - National
Edition, A PRODUCT OF H-BAR ENTERPRISES COPYRIGHT 1997 |
