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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 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, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for 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 he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Teddy Roosevelt   "Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.   - Teddy Roosevelt

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.   - Teddy Roosevelt

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.   - Winston Churchill

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But, it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.  - Winston Churchill