Saturday, September 29, 2012

Are you daring greatly?


A couple weeks ago, I read a blog post by The Pioneer Woman who was reading a book called Daring Greatly:  How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead by Brene Brown.  The title of the book was excerpted from a speech given by Teddy Roosevelt and really moved me.  

“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…”

                                                                                                ~ Theodore Roosevelt, 1910

My goal is to dare more greatly.  How about you?

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