"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points how the strong man stumbled 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 knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows 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, 1910
The entire speech by Roosevelt
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After watching the PBS documentary on the Roosevelts and continuing to get healthy in terms of emotional sobriety, I am not all that confident in this quote from Teddy Roosevelt and see a fine line between his personality and that of our previous President, a level of malignant narcissism that causes considerable harm in the world.
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