The Persistent

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or when 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, at the best,knows,in the end, the triumph of high achievement,and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails whilst daring greatly- so that his place shall never be with these cold and timid souls who neither victory nor defeat... for those who have had to fight for it, life has truly a flavour the protected shall never know."

- Theodore Roosevelt