Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Doris Kearns Goodwin (American Historian)

Doris Kearns Goodwin (b.1943,) née Doris Helen Kearns, is an American journalist, historian, and writer. She is a highly regarded presidential studies-scholar.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Kearns received a bachelor’s degree from Colby College and a doctorate in government from Harvard University. Goodwin was named a White House fellow in 1967 when President Lyndon Johnson asked her to help with his memoirs, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1976.) Goodwin’s subsequent books include The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (1987,) No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (1994; Pulitzer 1995.)

Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005,) about Lincoln’s mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation’s history, served as the primary source for Steven Spielberg’s biographical film Lincoln (2012; starring Daniel Day-Lewis.) President Barack Obama was so impressed with the book that he famously created his own “team-of-rivals” cabinet.

Goodwin later wrote The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (2013) and Leadership in Turbulent Times (2018.) Her memoirs are Wait Till Next Year (1997.)

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It’s the human desire in all of us to want to make life better for somebody else. It makes you feel larger. It makes you feel part of the whole human race. And if you can make that transition in even a small way, and then it becomes larger and larger, it’s something that deepens you as a person. It’s a much better source of ambition than just for self.
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Mental health, contemporary psychiatrists tell us, consists of the ability to adapt to the inevitable stresses and misfortunes of life. It does not mean freedom from anxiety and depression, but only the ability to cope with these afflictions in a healthy way.
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Most of the time, success in the world depends on collaborating with other people. And learning how to do that, learning how to listen, learning how to treat people with respect and with dignity, learning how to be humble … those are the human qualities we all need in our everyday life.
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Adversity does, I think, allow a person to grow, to feel more empathy, to feel wisdom, and more importantly, to feel perspective.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Topics: Adversity

To be a historian is to discover the facts in context, to discover what things mean, to lay before the reader your reconstruction of time, place, mood, to empathize even when you disagree. You read all the relevant material, you synthesize all the books, you speak to all the people you can, and then you write down what you known about the period. You feel you own it.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Topics: History

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