“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care” “When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.” “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” There are no mistakes in life if you’re out there trying every day. But what life is that? Live your life, be “the man in the arena.”The critics have already lost. Criticizing someone else means that you’ve given up on yourself. The critic’s “victory” comes from the failure of others.

Your humility will keep you from becoming the critic. You’ll earn your victory and you’ll remember your failures. If you begin with failure, you’ll no longer fear it. The man in the arena knows that failure and victory are inseparable. What Is The Meaning of The Man In The Arena? ∼ Excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt’s speech “Citizenship In A Republic” 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. 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. Those who criticize have no power over them. They know that they’re responsible for their lives. The man in the arena is every man and woman who has chosen to live their own lives. Who’s the man in the arena in Theodore Roosevelt’s famous speech?

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