What a week so far, Daily Quoters.With Parts 1 and 2 of our series on banned TED talks, we've set the bar for the week ahead, and for future editions of The Daily Quota.
Today we move away from the contrarian, the cynical and sardonic. Today we move towards the inspirational and the uplifting.
The Daily Quota for today is a speech made by former US President Theodore Roosevelt in 1910 titled 'Citizenship in a Republic'.
This speech was made in Paris, a year after he has completed his 8-year term in office.
There is one paragraph in particular which has gained immortality for its focus in the 'little guy'. It has become famously known as The Man in the Arena - alluding to a gladiator or matador.
Here is the paragraph:
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, 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.The link below is the entirety of his speech, with emphasis on this paragraph.
Some much-needed motivation to see you through to the weekend, dear Daily Quoters.
READ IT HERE
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