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I am sure you have heard of the wonder who is Brene Brown
If you haven't, stop reading this post and I demand you watch her Ted Talk and then her other Ted Talk
GO ON
Welcome Back! In the aftermath of Brene's Great Talks she stumbled across a quote by Theodore Roosevelt.
On April 23rd 1910 at 3pm our friend Teddy said;
"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 errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms, the 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 cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
The next time you are afraid to try something, remember this quote and know that to not try at all is to fail by default!
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