# It’s Not the Critic That Counts

Language: en  
Author: \~Theodore Roosevelt  
Original issue: The Heartbeat of The Remnant, July/August 2012, Number 4  
Source pages: 31  
Read article: <https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/character/it-s-not-the-critic-that-counts/>
Original PDF: 2012\-07\-Remnant\.pdf
[The Heartbeat of The Remnant, July/August 2012](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/issues/heartbeat-remnant-2012-07/>)

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> “It is not the critic that counts,  
>  nor the man who points out how  
>  the strong man stumbled,  
>  nor where the doer of deeds could  
>  have been done better\.
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> 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 again—  
>  who knows the great enthusiasms,  
>  the great devotions,  
>  and spends himself in a worthy  
>  cause;
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> Who at best knows the end of  
>  the triumph of high achievement,  
>  and who at worst, if he fails,  
>  at least fails while doing greatly,  
>  so that his place shall never be  
>  with those cold and timid souls  
>  who know neither victory nor  
>  defeat\!”

\~Theodore Roosevelt