MAN IN THE ARENA SPEECH by Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Complete Text at link below.

"Citizenship In A Republic", delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910

https://www.worldfuturefund.org/Documents/maninarena.htm

Dan's TS post - https://truthsocial.com/@DanScavino/112544829195666336

Dan's post on qagg - https://qagg.news/?read=TO136140

I had to memorize this in HS in 1982. Can still recite it.

I had Teddy's inaugural speech on my refrigerator for years. Best motivation ever, that and Alan Shepherd's prayer, "Please, Lord, don't let me fuck up".

Scavino has also posted an edit with that Speech, Great vid.

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