CategoryAutobiography

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Doris Kearns Goodwin – Teams of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

Doris Kearns Goodwin – Teams of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Doris Kearns Goodwin – Teams of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Doris Kearns Goodwin – Teams of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Doris Kearns Goodwin – Teams of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Doris Kearns Goodwin – Teams of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Doris Kearns Goodwin – Teams of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody.

Doris Kearns Goodwin – Teams of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Doris Kearns Goodwin – Teams of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln