Doris Kearns Goodwin

An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#lifelong-learning #education

We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#parenthood #love

Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: "He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#compromise #idealism #attitude

A real democracy would be a meritocracy where those born in the lower ranks could rise as far as their natural talents and discipline might take them. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#inspirational #education

One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase every day. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#confidence #empathy #leadership #personal-growth #leadership

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#gets #history #house #left #matters

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#ahead #convincing #following #ground #leadership

Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#become #both #economy #going #keep

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#filters #his #own #past #prism