It’s no surprise that Miley Cyrus has added yet another tattoo to her list of 14. Seen yesterday sporting this forearm piece after a Pilates class, Miley’s latest addition is pretty unique if you ask me. Most of her tattoos are adorable while other are unexplained, like the Roman numerals on her right forearm and the mysterious skull on inside of her right foot that she shares with future husband, Liam Hemsworth, but her new tattooed quote is deeper and makes you think.
It reads, “So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” It’s a quote from Theodore Roosevelt’s 1910 speech “Citizenship in a Republic,” or “The Man in the Arena,” and my guess is that refers to her future with Liam. My translation: They will never surround their marriage and/or home with negativity nor with those who are jealous and deceitful. I think the quote is really cute, especially since she is newly engaged, and I’m particularly biased because I’m a huge fan of large forearm tattoos.
How would you translate Miley’s new tattoo? Do you love it or hate it?
daisy / 603 posts
I love it, especially with your translation!
I think it’s important to have a relationship that focuses only on the two people in it and not worry about what other things, especially those who try and cause problems//drama.
I’d like to have it framed and put on a wall when my fiance and I buy a house next year.
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Wow.
That quote is so lovely!
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Nice but no.
I am currently married and I do not tattoo sayings on my body or matching tattoos. People seem to do that but it dooms the marriage. Just write it in your heart.
(case and point: Pepa and Fletch from Naughty by Nature- got rings tattoo’ed on their fingers. Marriage lasted may be a year.)
I still wish her the best of luck and may she have a strong, enduring marriage but c’mon!
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It looks ok. I am not a fan of tattooed quotes. I am not Miley so I have no clue what it means to her. I read the quote to mean something completely different. To me it says live life to the fulle and do not allow fear to stop you because if you do you won’t experience defeat, but you definitely won’t experience victory either. I am just guessing, but this quote goes really well with her dreamcatcher tattoo. I doubt it has anything to do with her engagement or marriage.
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At least it’s not a YOLO tattoo! -___-
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I like the quote. If it’s solely based on her upcoming marriage, though, it makes me a bit nervous.
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i think the quote is about trying, doing, acting, regardless of failure or victory, about picking yourself back up when you’ve failed and continuing to persevere: “the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiently, who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no triumph without error and shortcomings…” many incoming freshmen of the US service academies are required to memorize “the man in the arena” as part of their indoctrination. i don’t really see how it relates to their marriage and, frankly, it kind of annoys me that a silly pop icon has branded herself with one of the best quotes from a past president. now a bunch of teeny boppers are going to be posting this quote on their facebooks without having read the actual passage itself… kind of like how everyone quotes robert frost, “and i, i took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference,” and completely misinterpret the entire poem. -___-
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Love it
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I’m not a fan of quote tattoos, and this one is certainly not an exception. This quote seems a bit too deep for someone like her to be referencing her marriage, or whatever else she could be referencing from her life. Girls like her need to stick to the dainty ink work. None of my tattoos are larger than my fist, and I plan on keeping it that way. She’s just starting to look gawdy.
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I love that quote, but it seems incomplete. Then again, if she lives in accordance with the rest of the quote, then she herself would be the rest of the sentence, which is kind of cool.
As for the quote itself, it’s about not allowing yourself to be a complainer and to instead be the one out there actually trying and doing, who the losers waste their lives bitching and moaning about.
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@Jade_Orchid@xanga - it might not actually be aimed at her marriage. That’s just the author of this article’s interpretation- it could mean something completely different to Miley.
Love the placement, love the quote- even though i’m not a great fan of MIley’s I love all her tattoos.
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@youarethepretender@xanga - I guess I am a little disappointed because that seems to be the new tat trend is the quotes. At one point it was the paw prints on the chest (more urban) then it was the Chinese script and after that it was tribal. I guess it had to come full circle and be in English (or the person’s native tongue.)
I am so off course on celebs I didn’t even know this girl had more than one tattoo. So, I am rambling. Don’t pay me no mind. (lol)
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@Jade_Orchid@xanga - haha, well I have a written tattoo (it’s actually a few words from a song lyric) and love it, I think it depends how it’s done and what the quote is… sometimes it can be tacky or other times really classy and beautiful. Each to their own i guess!
I’m so behind on celebrities too though haha don’t worry (:
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this girl is addicted to getting tattoos.
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me gusta!!