We Must Strive to Do Great Things

We Must Strive to Do Great Things

June 9, 2026 · 17 min

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of striving for greatness and the value of effort in achieving success.

Listen to episode 1128 of the Inspirational Living podcast: We Must Strive to do Great Deeds. Edited and adapted from a speech by Teddy Roosevelt. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt :It is not the critic who counts; not the one who points out how the strong person has stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the men and women who are actually in the arena, whose faces are marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strive valiantly; who err; who come short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming. These are the brave souls who actually strive to DO the deeds; who know great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best knows the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if they fail, at least fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. --------------------- Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron Transform…

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