Positive thoughts

This week I've been trying to post a positive quote to facebook (FB) everyday.  They do tend to be related to sport. This one is a bit long for FB

It is not the critic who counts,
nor the man who points out 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 errs and comes short again and again;
who knows great enthusiasms, 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 timid souls
who know neither victory nor defeat.
       - TheodorRoosevelt 

President Roosevelt is saying no matter how you finish the person who has tried is the person who has won.  This reminds me of something a friend's uncle, maybe 10 years older then us, told me when I was a child,   "Don't worry about what others thing of you its more important what you think of yourself."  We should all try and remember this even though it is hard.

Have a wonderful week.  Try something new and yes you may fail but iyou tried therefore you have won.