It is not the critic who counts......

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or whether 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 the greatest 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 timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
~ Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

I was rather surprised to find this quote at the end of one of the Alzheimer's studies I read while researching and writing my capstone paper for school.
I liked it....I liked it a lot ~ it was encouraging to read that while slogging through study after study without feeling like there were any conclusive, positive outcomes. It is nice to know that there will be people out there looking for a cure, a new way to treat Alzheimer's disease.