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Quotation from Citizenship in a Republic ("The Man in the Arena") by Theodore Roosevelt
“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, and 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 the 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 know neither victory nor defeat.”
Citizenship in a Republic ("The Man in the Arena"), Paragraph 9 (African and European Addresses (1910))
The man in the arena, the passage that gave the speech its popular name.
Citation: "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, and 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 the 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 know neither victory nor defeat." — Theodore Roosevelt, Citizenship in a Republic ("The Man in the Arena"), Paragraph 9 (African and European Addresses (1910)). (id citizenship-in-a-republic-q4)
Portrait: 1910-04-26 - Théodore-Roosevelt regardant voler Dubonnet à Issy, Agence Rol, Public domain.
