Inspiration

A few times a month my Dad & I exchange our favorite motivational and inspirational quotes that we’ve come across. I use mine for #motivationmonday on Facebook & he includes his in speeches to his baseball team before or after a game.

This morning I received an email with several quotes from him, but this one was by far my favorite so I wanted to share with all of you:

“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 is marred by dust, sweat and blood, who strives valiantly…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.” 

-Teddy Roosevelt