Failure Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Lincoln’s most prominent feature—the perpetual look of sadness. He’d been to the battle fields, he’d read the prison reports. No wonder he was so…

— Katherine Lowry Logan

“Lincoln replied that he was more than willing to die, but that he had “done nothing to make any human being remember that he…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“And as soon as he was gone, I saw beyond, to where Lincoln stood, exactly where I'd seen him last, when I'd begged him…

— Jessica Shirvington

“The ambition to establish a reputation worthy of the esteem of his fellows so that his story could be told after his death had…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Whatever greatness Lincoln achieved cannot be explained as a triumph over personal suffering. Rather, it must be accounted for as an outgrowth of the…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

“Lincoln matured best in sorrow.”

— Elton Trueblood

“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they…

— Henry Ketcham

“Abraham Lincoln suffered through depression through his life and then suffered through the pain of conducting a civil war, and emerged with the sense…

— David Brooks

“Lincoln was as calm and unruffled as the summer sea in moments of the gravest peril;”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.”

— Anonymous

“And, as I watched the Lincoln come by degrees to a relationship with what it saw, I understood something: the basis of life is…

— Philip K. Dick

“The past would haunt when the present let up, and always, always the future would loom with its certainty of tragedy and pain.”

— Erika Robuck