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 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 up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for 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 he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
–Teddy Roosevelt
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It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
–Mark Twain
Duty is the Essence of Manhood – George S. Patton
The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
–George S. Patton
True Nobility – Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.
–Alexander MacLaren
Be a Man – Johann Wolfgang
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
–Johann Wolfgang
Something Else is More Important – Ambrose Redmoon
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important.
–Ambrose Redmoon
Feelings of Childhood – Samuel Taylor
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
–Samuel Taylor
Greatness – Abraham Lincoln
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
Live Manfully – Thomas Carlyle
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
–Thomas Carlyle