Let these words inspire you as much as they do me every day! Do not "live in that grey twilight that knows neithr victory nor defeat!"
 

• I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. ... 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 that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
  
  
  
  • Theodore Roosevelt, in a speech at the Hamilton Club, Chicago (10 April 1899)
  
  
  
  

 

• It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, 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 the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
  
  
  
  • Theodore Roosevelt, in "Citizenship in a Republic " a speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, France (23 Apirl 1910)
  
  
  
  

 
Source: Wikiquote / Victory