I have always loved this speech

[mattman578 117]

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.

 

Now you get extra points if you tell me who said it and were it was said

[walk in the woods 887]

TR at some place in France I think, the Sarbonne or something like that I think.

[mattman578 117]

dcimmons that is close enough

[EagleScout441 81]

It is an excerpt from the speech "Citizenship in a Republic", delivered by "Teddy" Roosevelt at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on April 23, 1910.