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Doris Kearns Goodwin Quote

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition, he wrote. I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition, he wrote. I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed.

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