It's 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 faces 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 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.

Theodore Roosevelt.

And that is a quote that I came by today, and I'm sure I may have heard something about it in the past,

but it's the first time that it caught my ear

Jared polenfronos photo.com and this is the Daily Fro for June 16th, 2000 and 19. The time now is

1243 in the PM. This is episode 264, if I am correct. Yeah, 264. It's been a minute since I've done it, but this

caught my attention and this is what I wanted to talk about today. Anyway, this is where I sit down

sometime during the day to share what's on my mind with you and you get to share what's on your

mind with me by calling or texting 267-454637. Yeah, this quote, I don't know what took so long for me to encounter this,

but this has really gotten me going today. This is really put succinctly, and I don't know if it

was written in 19-10. I think it was given a speech in 1910 by Theodore Roosevelt.

I mean, let's break it down.

It's not the critic who counts, aka keyboard warriors or people that sit at home and just

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