Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919) was an American statesman, politician, conservationist, naturalist, and writer who was the 26th president of the United States. Home-schooled, he began a lifelong love of nature and of all his achievements, he was proudest of his work in conservation. He had a reputation as both a learned historian and as a popular writer. Roosevelt was a prolific author, writing with passion on subjects ranging from foreign policy to the importance of the national parks.
Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt…
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, 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 the 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 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.