"It is not the critic who counts:

not the [person] who points out how the strong [one] stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.

The credit belongs to the [person] who is actually in the arena, whose face is 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 [spend themselves] in a worthy cause;

who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if [they fail],
at least ... fails while daring greatly, so that [their] place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who knew neither victory nor defeat."

– Theodore Roosevelt in Speech at the Sorbonne (1910)