Finding old man winter's bitter blues happening all around me I wrote this to a friend who was having a rough week. Encouragement, what a word, it's got the word courage in it. [Middle English encouragen, from Old French encoragier : corage, courage] hey wait... Courage -- the state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicissitudes with self-possession, confidence, and resolution; bravery.
[Middle English corage, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor, heart.]
As I'm into words and everyone around me needs some encouraging, break down the words, do take heart and keep on trucking as they say out here in the prairies.
Theodore Roosevelt did so say
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.
[Middle English corage, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor, heart.]
As I'm into words and everyone around me needs some encouraging, break down the words, do take heart and keep on trucking as they say out here in the prairies.
Theodore Roosevelt did so say
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.
This stuff is what kept me going a few times over the past few years since I first heard the quote, but more on that in a little while.
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