Back in the day, before Miley Cyrus had made twerking a thing, and she and Liam Hemsworth were still dating, they got matching tattoos.
Rather apt I must say, considering they eventually broke up. Hey, at least they fought hard to make it work. We can safely say they are neither cold nor timid.
The words in the tattoos are a quote from Citizenship in a Republic, a 35-page speech given by former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1910.
Many a time, those that ridicule and criticize us as we attempt feats of great daring and courage are the ones who dare not try themselves. What better way to feel better about themselves than to convince themselves that others cannot accomplish what they dare not try? They desperately need it to be true so that they do not come off as cowards.
Roosevelt’s words are a powerful reminder to pay no mind to what other people say as you go about the business of working towards your goals. To cast aside fear and failure and mediocrity and the pedestrian, and reach for excellence in your chosen fields. Just like the “Man in the Arena”.
“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, 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.”
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