The Value of Effort and Courage

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 with 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 the deeds, who knows 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

worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring

greatly so that his place shall never be with those

cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor

defeat.