"IT IS NOT THE CRITIC WHO COUNTS;
NOR 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
BECAUSE THERE IS NO EFFORT WITHOUT ERROR AND SHORTCOMING;
WHO DOES ACTUALLY STRIVE TO DO THE DEEDS,
WHO KNOWS THE GREAT ENTHUSIASM, THE GREAT DEVOTIONS,
WHO SPENDS HIMSELF IN A WORTHY CAUSE;
WHO AT 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 KNOW NEITHER VICTORY NOR DEFEAT."
-THEODORE ROOSEVELT