I think that's still what the ...

I think that\'s still what the American Dream means: that with perseverance, with hard work, you can become something, that the classes won\'t prevent you from becoming, that there\'s a movement up that ladder with hard work.
I think that's still what the American Dream means: that with perseverance, with hard work, you can become something, that the classes won't prevent you from becoming, that there's a movement up that ladder with hard work.
 Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
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 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
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 Dave East
We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.
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 John Shelby Spong
I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself.
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 Olivia Palermo
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
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 Carlos Castaneda

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There is a sense of feeling larger than your own life when you're in some common mission together. You have to hope it's not going to take a war to bring that back to America again. I think another time when it seemed to be here was in the early 1960s.
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 Doris Kearns Goodwin
I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.
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 Doris Kearns Goodwin
Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.
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 Doris Kearns Goodwin
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
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 Doris Kearns Goodwin
Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of ways, he - as a character - was even larger than his presidency. Being able to get to know him well, that firsthand relationship with this large character, I think is what drew me to writing books about presidents.
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 Doris Kearns Goodwin