![]() ![]() What is today referred to by many as The Man in the Arena speech was delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France, on April 23, 1910. Funding provided by the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation. Theodore Roosevelt left Presidential office in 1909 and in the year that followed, he traveled extensively and spoke to various audiences. ![]() ![]() 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.”ĭakota Datebook: Remembering Theodore Roosevelt is written and performed by Steve Stark. 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. This was the most famous university of medieval Europe at a time when no one dreamed that there was a new world to discover. Titled The Man In The Arena, the short excerpt underlines how critics have little place judging those daring greatly: It is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong. “Strange and impressive associations rise in the mind of a man from the new world who speaks before this august body in this ancient institution of learning. ![]()
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