Motivation Monday: The Man in the Arena

Theodore Roosevelt, in the most memorable section of his “Citizenship in a Republic” speech, he captured his life philosophy in just a few sentences. It takes hard work, tenacity, and a desire to do the right thing can get you far in life. TR reminds us that glory and honor come to those “who spend themselves in a worthy cause.”

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 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 best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at 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 or defeat.”