OPINION: Lincoln's advice for success still rings true today
He once said the United States is the wonder of the world because here,"every man can make himself." That’s what he did.Long before he was president, Lincoln earned a reputation for integrity. When he was 24, a little general store he co-owned failed, plunging him into debt. He vowed to pay back every cent. It took him several years, but he did it.
, he told his best friend, Joshua Speed, that he did not want to die until he had done something to make the world remember him and make it a better place. Years later, as president, he told Speed that signing the Emancipation Proclamation was the realization of that youthful ambition.Lincoln had less than a year of schooling, but he loved learning."My best friend is a man who can get me a book," he said, and he would walk miles through the Indiana woods to lay his hands on one.
"Upon the subject of education," he once wrote,"I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in." Lincoln’s road to the presidency was a bumpy one. He had successes but also his share of setbacks. He lost his first campaign for the Illinois statehouse in 1832, but he tried again two years later and won, leading to four terms in the legislature.
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