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. – The Man In The Arena, Teddy Roosevelt

Teddy Roosevelt was a man who dared to do big things.  He didn’t listen to his critics, he didn’t listen to the conventional wisdom of his day, he simply dared to do things, big things, things that he believed were the right things to do.

The quote above is the famous “Man in the Arena” section of a speech he gave in 1910.  It’s as applicable today as it was 100+ years ago.

Don’t die a timid soul.

Dare to do big things, to fail greatly.

Dare to be the man in the arena.

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