Because sometimes it bears remembering that, despite what the British public seem to believe of enterprise and entrepreneurs, failing greatly can be a far more worthy endeavor than stagnant competence.
“It is not the critic who counts, nor 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; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, 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 timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
by Theodore Roosevelt:
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February 6, 2010 at 8:53 pm
Dave Dawes
That is such an inspiring quote that really sums up the entrepreneur struggle. I also like Invictus by William Henley:
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
February 6, 2010 at 10:47 pm
throughglassdarkly
That’s wonderful!
Needed to hear that this evening too.
Thanks Dave 🙂 x