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• 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...
• It is not the critic who counts, or how the strong man stumbled, or whether 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 and comes short again and agai...
• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure .
  . . than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat....
• The man who gets on best with women is the one who knows best how to get on without them.
  -- Pierre Baudelaire...
• The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumph
  even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat....
• The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. -- Boileau
• The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. -- Theodore Roosevel
• No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life in a great cause.
  -- Theodore Roosevel...