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To: Boplicity who wrote (2686)6/24/2000 1:04:00 AM
From: jjkirk  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 13572
 
Evening Greg, Glad you appreciated the TR quote. I found the full quote and thought you and others would enjoy reading it...Regards, jj

Man in the Arena

One of the top three most requested quotes is that regarding the "man in the
arena" or "not the critic"

"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

"...the man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic-the man
who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only
talks or writes about how it ought to be done." (1891)

"Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take
the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere
critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in
the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be
fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger." (1894)

theodoreroosevelt.org