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, and comes up short again and again, because there is no
effort without error and shortcoming; But who does actually strive
to do the deeds; Who knows the 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
worse, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his
place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know
neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)