“It is not the critic who counts;

not the one who points out how the strong person stumbles,

or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the (hu)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 strive to do the deeds;

who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;

who spends themselves in a worthy cause;

who, at their best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,

and who at their worst - if they fail -

fails while daring greatly,

so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls

who neither know victory nor defeat.”