観客席から高見の見物ではなく

重要なのは批評する人ではなく、実際に戦う人。顔にはほこりや汗、血で汚れ、果敢に挑み、失敗を繰り返しながらも努力し続ける人。熱意と献身を知り、偉大な目的のために自分を捧げる人。最高の時は高い成果の勝利を、最悪の時でも大胆に挑戦し敗れた人は、勝利も敗北も知らない冷たい魂とは違う。

“The man in the arena” by Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
“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.”