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.
Our party, he declared, stands for the right of property and the right of liberty, for institutions that have stood the test of time, and for an economic system that rewards energy, courage, enterpris...
One evening, Lincoln listened as Stanton worked himself into a fury against one of the generals. I would like to tell him what I think of him, Stanton stormed. Why don’t you, suggested Lincoln. Write...
No man resolved to make the most of himself, can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper, and the loss of self-...
My reading was always a kind of living, he explained later, a longing to know some man or men stronger, braver, wiser, wittier, more amusing, or more desperately wicked, than I was, whom I could come...
Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is com...
Momentum is not a mysterious mistress, Johnson liked to say. It is a controllable fact of political life that depends on nothing more exotic than preparation.
Hearst’s papers and magazines were his intended target and promised his speech would clarify that he abhorred the whitewash brush quite as much as of mud slinging.
Even Roosevelt, with his singular disciplined drive, managed to quit work early four or five afternoons each week for a game of tennis or jog through Rock Creek Park before heading
For political leaders in a democracy are not revolutionaries or leaders of creative thought. The best of them are those who respond wisely to changes and movements already under way. The worst, the le...
How children dance, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, to the unlived lives of their parents,
I find that without a place to work, it is difficult to work. I look forward with the greatest pleasure to the use of my books at night at home.
Fanny was upset when Crittenden criticized Florence Nightingale, the celebrated British nurse of the Crimean War, saying, he thought it a very unwomanly thing for a gentle lady to go into a hospital o...
He cannot speak clearly if his words must be strained through a Congressional gag.
More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.
The majority of the great fortunes were won not by doing evil, but as an incident to action which has benefited the community as a whole.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
So surely did Lincoln midwife this process of social transformation that we look back at the United States before Abraham Lincoln and after him.
On a hot summer night in July 1836, an organized mob broke into the shop where the abolitionist weekly was printed, dismantled the press, and tore up the edition that was about to be circulated.
Simon Cameron: I loved my brother, as only the poor and lonely can love those with whom they have toiled and struggled up the rugged hill of life’s success—but he died bravely in the discharge of his...
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