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, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the 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 know neither victory nor defeat.
T. Roosevelt 1910
If you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
T. Roosevelt to Lt. Douglas MacArthur 1906
The TR quote above, now commonly referred to as "The Critic", is from a speech he gave in the Sorbonne in 1910. It has long been one of my favorites. Roosevelt didn't say the second. I also like, “If you run into an [bleep] in the morning, you ran into an [bleep]. If you run into [bleep] all day, you're the [bleep].” Raylan Givens.
I also like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWW6aDpUvbQ
