"A little Lift"
Sidney Liang
www.cambodianvoices.org
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Last night, one of my professors gave me this quote to discuss in the Leadership Class. I found it to be very indebt and appropriate to what we do as volunteers and public servants who receive barrage of criticism, insult, unappreciative, and unsupportive verbiages and actions toward our priceless works. I could not say it any better than that; so enjoy!
“It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points how the strong man stumbled 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 knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails while doing greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
- President Theodore Roosevelt