[simpits-tech] One bad day- A Columbia Tribute

Craig Rochester simpits-tech@simpits.org
Sun, 2 Feb 2003 23:58:04 -0500


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 and comes short again and again because there is no
effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the
great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause,
who at his best knows in the end the high achievement of
triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly,
knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold
souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

-Theodore Roosevelt