1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6386
6387
6388
6389
6390
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7df6524 | flour and lumber." The entire settlement consisted of a few hundred people, fifteen log cabins, a tavern, a church, a blacksmith, a schoolmaster, a preacher, and a" | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| e75b3eb | Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 386213f | In Louisiana, a group of nine Negro GIs boarded a train for transfer from the hospital at Camp Claiborne to the hospital at Fort Huachuca in Arizona. The train was delayed for twelve hours. "The only place that would serve us was the lunch room at the station," one of the nine reported. "But we couldn't eat where the white people were eating. To do that would contaminate the very air of the place, so we had to go to the kitchen. That was ba.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 8d6dbad | The sad and poignant thing for Johnson, however, was not his anti-intellectualism in itself but his need to be accepted by the very people he scorned. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| d78bbf6 | Largely to gain Nellie's approbation, Will began to carry a book as a matter of course. "Trollope is a great favorite of mine because of the realistic every day tone which one finds in every line he writes," he told her. "His heroes have failings human character is heir to, and we like them none the less on that account." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| b821ce9 | When he came upon a passage that Struck him, he would write it down on boards if he had no paper & keep it there until he did get paper," she recalled, "and then he would rewrite it" and keep it in a scrapbook so that he could preserve it." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 5fd8eaa | I made the discovery long ago that very few people made a great difference to me, but that those few mattered enormously. I live surrounded by people, and my thoughts are always with the few that matter whether they are near or far. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 4650d10 | While Abraham, gifted with physical agility and uncommon athletic prowess, had to make his mind, Teedie, privileged beyond measure with resources to develop his mind, had to make his body. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 6d1b30c | In the age-old debate about whether leadership traits are innate or developed, memory--the ease and capacity with which the mind stores information--is generally considered an inborn trait. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 77ed3dc | Such men of "towering" egos, in whom ambition is divorced from the people's best interests, were not men to lead a democracy; they were despots." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| ecd5747 | Generations of historians have agreed with Holmes, pointing to Roosevelt's self-assured, congenial, optimistic temperament as the keystone to his leadership success. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| ec75bd5 | On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln rose with great and unaccustomed cheer to greet the final day of his life. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 8d104e2 | A finely developed sense of timing--knowing when to wait and when to act--would remain in Lincoln's repertoire of leadership skills the rest of his life. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 7379e21 | Get the books, and read and study them," he told a law student seeking advice two decades later. "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| a235d80 | If you spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, anything would seem easy! | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| fa8e55b | From his early twenties, Lyndon Johnson had operated upon the premise that if "he could get up earlier and meet more people and stay up later than anybody else," victory would be his." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 37dd0ce | In less than half a dozen years, seemingly from nothing and from nowhere, he had risen to become a respected leader in the state legislature, a central figure in the fight for internal improvements, an instrumental force behind the planting of the new capital, and a practicing lawyer. Given his beginnings, he had traveled an immense distance; yet, given the inordinate nature of his ambition to render himself worthy of his fellow men, he had.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 78a4093 | Abraham Lincoln never lived to see the completion of the task he had begun with his Proclamation--the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment by three-quarters of the states in December 1865. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| d7dcda7 | Once Roosevelt had agreed to be drafted and assumed the responsibility of running for governor, he was in it for keeps. "When you're in politics you have to play the game," he told a friend." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 1f5f04c | but it would be "a dreadful misfortune for a man to grow to feel that his whole livelihood and whole happiness depend upon his staying in office. Such a feeling prevents him from being of real service to the people while in office, and always puts him under the heaviest strain to barter his convictions for the sake of holding office." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 6738385 | Shortly after the Kaiserin dropped anchor at Quarantine, the revenue cutter Manhattan pulled alongside, | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 8070a9c | I would not have been president had it not been for my experience in North Dakota. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| d834980 | American philosopher William James wrote of the mysterious formation of identity, "that the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely alive and active. At such moments, there is a voice inside which speaks and says, 'This is the real me!" | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 2f80726 | Scholars who have studied the development of leaders have situated resilience, the ability to sustain ambition in the face of frustration, at the heart of potential leadership growth. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 5dfd31c | Early on, Abraham revealed a keystone attribute essential to success in any field--the motivation and willpower to develop every talent he possessed to the fullest. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 1496d88 | He would view each position as a test of character, effort, endurance, and will. He would keep nothing in reserve for some will-o-the-wisp future. Rather, he would regard each job as a pivotal test, a manifestation of his leadership skills. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| b74f291 | we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| d620d39 | He then took his listeners back to their common beginnings, to the founding of the nation, unraveling a narrative to demonstrate that when the Constitution was adopted, "the plain, unmistakable spirit of that age, towards slavery, was hostility to the principle, and toleration, only by necessity," | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 4b78c09 | A house divided against itself cannot stand, | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 5f862ea | The surest way to be happy," Eleanor wrote in an essay at school, "is to seek happiness for others." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 1cda4de | humility is the first and greatest of virtues. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| bf7b0ca | I have ever preferred that a man should tell me face to face that he will or will not do a thing, than to promise to do it and then to not do it. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 9910dd1 | Life had shown him that logic and step-by-step planning hardly controlled events. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| bd322ff | All one can do is to prepare oneself, to wait in readiness for what might come. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 9c30f05 | As a fit and necessary military measure for effecting this object, [preservation of the Union] I, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, do order and declare that on the first day of January in the year of our Lord 1863 all persons held as slaves within any state or states, wherein the constitutional authority of the United States shall not then be practically recognized, submitted to, and maintained shall then, th.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 2805e71 | by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| e9a6967 | While some men, he observed, were naturally fearless, he had to train his "soul and spirit" as well as his body. So, "constantly forcing himself to do the difficult or even dangerous thing," he gradually was able to cultivate courage as "a matter of habit, in the sense of repeated effort and repeated exercise of will-power." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 7fc5708 | Lincoln warned, the lawyer must not rely on rhetorical glibness or persuasiveness alone. What is well-spoken must be yoked to what is well-thought. And such thought is the product of great labor, "the drudgery of the law." Without that labor, without that drudgery, the most eloquent words lack gravity and power." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 77076ea | Indeed, "the leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for tomorrow that can be done to-day." The key to success, he insisted, is "work, work, work." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| b72d514 | The key to Lincoln's success was his uncanny ability to break down the most complex case or issue "into its simplest elements." He never lost a jury by fumbling with or reading from a prepared argument, relying instead "on his well-trained memory." He aimed for intimate conversations with the jurors, as if conversing with friends. Though his arguments were "logical and profound," they were "easy to follow," fellow lawyer Henry Clay Whitney .. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 62975b2 | If a person focused too much on a future that could not be controlled, he would become, Roosevelt acknowledged, too "careful, calculating, cautious in word and act." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 664770c | Act like you're talking to those folks," he counseled his students. "Look one of them in the eye and then move on and look another one in the eye." During competitions, he utilized all his supple array of gestures and facial expressions to cue and prompt--now frowning, narrowing his eyes, creasing his brow, shaking his head, gaping in wonder--creating a silent movie to steer and goad his charges to victory." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 692c20f | Do what you can, with what you have, where you are, | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| db3a431 | the leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for tomorrow that can be done to-day." The key to success, he insisted, is "work, work, work." | Doris Kearns Goodwin |