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 at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
It is not the critic who counts
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
O, do not pray for easy lives.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
It takes a strong man to accept somebody else's children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.
The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.
It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense of superiority in bodily strength is borne out by the long history of mankind paying homage in folklore, song and poetry to strong men
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
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