Friday, March 31, 2006

[Wo]man in the arena....

With apologies to FDR,

"It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the woman 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 herself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if she fails, at least she fails while daring greatly, so that her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

8 comments:

D said...

Great news on the ITB! Reminder: Kookaburra photos.....

2P said...

I think that was how it was origninally written until his advisors got to it ;-)

Keep it positive mate.

Tesso said...

Thanks for the quote Jen ... its the sort of thing that I need right now!

TA and the Gnome said...

Jen, that quote never fails to move me, and like Tesso said - now is just the right time to read it again :-)

Gnome

Hilda said...

What a weekend is waiting for you!

And then Monday!! I can't wait!!

Don Juan said...

With that quote, looks like you'll be gearing up for ironman next year.
Good luck.

Scott said...

Eleanor actually wrote it that way.

owen said...

I love that quote too!

Good to hear things are going well Kinder, sorry to hear about your car... At least you can be sure you can run better than they can!