It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, 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;... American Education - Page 1071918Full view - About this book
| Lawrence Fraser Abbott - Biography & Autobiography - 1919 - 412 pages
...obstacles: 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....strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again—because there is no effort without error and shortcoming—but who does actually strive to... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee - 1961 - 912 pages
...permit me in closing to repeat a favorite quotation of Teddy Roosevelt's exalting the doer of deeds : It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points...blood ; who strives valiantly ; who errs and comes up short again and again ; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1967 - 1434 pages
...made by Theodore Roosevelt when he was the Police Commissioner of New York City, in which he said : -It is not the critic who counts, not the man who...valiantly ; who errs and comes short again, and again ; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions ; who spends himself in a worthy cause ; who,... | |
| United States. Congress - Legislators - 1970 - 92 pages
...counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deed could have done better, the credit belongs to the man who is actually...valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at... | |
| United States. 92d Congress, 2d session, 1972, United States. Congress - Legislators - 1972 - 126 pages
...public servant reminds me of those words written years ago by Theodore Roosevelt on the heroic spirit : The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the...valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - Finance, Public - 1974 - 1574 pages
...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood ; who strives valiantly ; who errs and comes short again and again : who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause ; who,... | |
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