Theodore Roosevelt

“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts; nor 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 up short again and again; because there is not effort without error or shortcomings; but who actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at 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