<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420246" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Man in the Arena</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Man in the Arena</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Find what you love, to that be true</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Care less for what “they“ think of you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Follow your internal muse</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dare to take risks and pay your dues.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some such succeed and triumphs gain, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Others strive but all in vain.-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For both their place can never be</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out in the dark periphery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the end our lives are spent</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pursing dreams or paying rent</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The choice is ours to play our role</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don’t be a cold and timid soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though our faces be marred by dust and sweat</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we are the ones they won't forget.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not the faceless critic in his seat</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who knows neither victory nor defeat<br> J.M.<br> </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“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 the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and 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 know neither victory nor defeat.”-President Theodore Roosevelt</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420246" data-title="The Man in the Arena de John F. McCullagh" data-description="The Man in the Arena Find what you love, to that be true Care less for what “they“ think of you. Follow your internal muse Dare to take risks and pay your dues. Some such succeed and triumphs gain, Others strive but all in vain.- ..."></div> </div> </div>

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