“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, 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 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.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States
Excerpt from the speech “Citizenship In A Republic” delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910.
Tags: Theodore Roosevelt
Roger that!
That quote adorns the back of the man card I issue out to deserving young men.
New category, Sage?
Yes…. I would love to hear more from the person who argued for the progressive income tax and other “progressive/liberal nonsense.
It’s a shame Ted is dead, ’cause I bet pesos to tacos that he would be able to tear you a new one, and he’d progressively and liberally apply a heaping portion of STFU.
Look, only took four replies for that guy to show up! Please, explain how the quote is wrong because of his other views, I will wait… oh, nothing, okay. Don’t be that guy, it’s not like he was quoting Hitler or Kim Jong Il.
Bully!
I’ve carried a copy of this quote in my wallet every day since 2004. TR’s the man!
That’s my wallpaper… has been for years… you’d be surprised how many analysts still don’t “get it”.
“You ain’t sh’t, you ain’t done sh’t, you ain’t plannin’ on doin’ sh’t, so stop yer beyatchin’, sit down, and STFU”- AKA “The Redneck Version of that speech”.
JackM is right. Great quote from him, but that’s about where it stops. You look any progressive thoughts or far leaning liberal entitlements, it all points back to him.
http://mikeburbie.com/2013/11/14/the-ideological-roots-of-new-deal-statism/
Sorry for the left turn (pun intended)
That’s FDR, Ted’s cousin.
This is TR: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/politics-reform/essays/theodore-roosevelt-making-progressive-reformer
This progressive liberal was also easily defined, I guess:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152001328373887&l=502438f336
unless I am completely off base… he is saying that if you have not been there and done that … you have no real basis to commment on what was done or how it may have been carried out.
in short most media is not ifact reporting the news but rather makingf subjective commentary on what they think may have happened.
It’s kind of interesting, considering all the butthurt thats been going around facebook about bachman’s safarii, I wonder what the modern day reaction to a man who in his day managed to shoot up half of africa