“It is not the critic who counts.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
From Roosevelt's 'Citizenship in a Republic' speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910. Known as the 'Man in the Arena' speech.
I have been shot, mocked in newspapers, called a traitor by my own party, and buried a wife and a son. Every time I stepped into the arena, somebody was waiting to tell me I was wrong. But I was in the arena. The man who points out how the strong man stumbles has never stumbled himself because he never tried. Get in. Get dirty. Get hit. The credit belongs to you, not to the man in the stands.