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IT IS NOT

THE CRITIC WHO COUNTS,

NOT THE MAN WHO POINTS OUT

HOW THE STRONG MAN STUMBLED, 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 SHORT AGAIN AND AGAIN, WHO

KNOWS THE GREAT ENTHUSIASMS, THE GREAT DEVOTIONS,

AND SPENDS HIMSELF IN A WORTHY CAUSE,

WHO AT BEST KNOWS 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 KNOW NEITHER

VICTORY NOR DEFEAT.

TEDDY ROOSEVELT

SPEECH IN

ELWOOD PARK

1910

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