the poorest
way to face life is to face it with a sneer
there are many men who feel a kind of
twisted pride and cynicism
there are many who confine themselves to
criticism of the way
others do what they themselves dare not
even attempt
there is no more unhealthy being
no man less worthy of respect than he who
either really holds or feigns to hold
an attitude of sneering disbelief toward
all that is great and lofty
whether an achievement or in that noble
effort which
even if it fails comes to second
achievement
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 was actually in the arena
whose face is marred by dust and sweat
and blood
who strives valiantly who
airs who come 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 you
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