THE MAN IN THE ARENA

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. Theodore Roosevelt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I thought I would share a few poem, comments made by different people over the centuries. a lot of theses I had written in side my bible so I would always remember them. from 1992 which theses item are dated when I added them into my bible. of course a lot of them are a lot older than 1992. it is amazing how they seem to come out when you need that little burst of positivity in a world of so much negativity.