Daring greatly

“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, who errs, who comes short again and again …who at best knows …. if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly “.

Theodore Roosevelt

So many times we have been stopped even before we take the first step. Often its the critics, the ones that have never accomplished a thing but have the first word of unsolicited advise why we shouldn’t and why it won’t work. They seem to have it all figured it out, but yet they don’t. Some other times its our internal dialogues, our fears speaking, our comfort states.

We all have a need to try, a need to convince ourselves that there is more. I will also say we have a need to fail. Only in failure do we find growth, even more than in succeeding.