No monument has ever been erected to a critic.
No award has ever been given to a spectator.
So why do we have so many critics? Why do we have so many spectators?
Because the participants — the athletes, the artists, the students, the salespeople, etc. . . are putting themselves on the line.
They can be cheered, but they also can be booed.
They can be praised, but they also can be scolded.
They can know the “thrill of victory,” but they can also experience “the agony of defeat.”
TODAY’S MESSAGE IS DEDICATED TO YOU:
YOU'RE ACTUALLY IN THE ARENA.
YOU’RE ACTUALLY GOING FOR IT.
DON’T LET THE CRITICS AND SPECTATORS HOLD YOU BACK. THEY’VE ALREADY HELD THEMSELVES BACK BY CHOOSING TO BE CRITICS AND SPECTATORS.
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, wrote the best thing ever written on this topic . . .
It’s 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 dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and 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 never victory nor defeat.
Forget about the critics.
Don’t even consider becoming a spectator.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Rob Gilbert
