Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth it.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Ambition, Giving, Comfort

• When you are an historian, there's probably nothing that matters more than to be recognized by your colleagues in your own profession. I was lucky enough to win the Pulitzer Prize for History. I had to give a talk right after that to some young people. The most important thing to tell them, I think, is that you can't ever know that it's going to turn out that way.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Thinking, Winning, People

  Source: www.achievement.org

• The one thing that John Kennedy did, above all else, was to energize young people to feel that they wanted to give something to their country. I just hope, for young people of this generation, that they'll experience that feeling once again, that by working on large goals, they can do something more than their own individual ambition.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Country, Ambition, People

  "Lessons of Presidential Leadership". Academy of Achievemnt Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

• We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  People, Giving, Leader

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. Noveber 11, 2012.

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