Allow Me to Digress

Here’s something from a book I’ve been reading for quite some time now… I read more than one book at a time and unfortunately don’t get to finish anything lately.  I hope to finish this book soon.  I like this book from which I’ll be getting the quote because it gives me a window to the lives of the most influential people in the world.  I don’t like history that much and I must admit my memory is quite poor.  A dose of history is healthy though.  Here’s a quote quoted by the author and this quote is one of the most quoted speeches.  I’m quoting it again, how much more quoted can it get? Enough of my rambling… well, just read on. :)   

"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 marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, now, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

                                                                                –Theodore Roosevelt

from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Tested by Time by James L. Garlow

http://www.jimgarlow.com/testedbytime/TestedByTime.cfm?pagenum=1

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