Teddy Roosevelt Says It All

"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 and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcomng; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusisms, 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."
Theodor Roosevelt
Citizenship ina Republic; Speech delivered at the Sorbonne, Paris
April 23, 1910