THE MAN IN THE ARENA

I have shared the concept of "the arena" with many of you during some recent conversations.  Discovered initially in Brene Brown's book, "Daring Greatly..." the quote is credited to our 26th president of the United States, leader of the Republican party and founder of the progressive party, Theodore Roosevelt. Happy President's Day.

"Daring greatly" on Tre's tricycle - 2009

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.