A Quote by Stephen Ambrose

I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.

Stephen Ambrose

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Stephen Ambrose
American - Historian
January 10, 1936 - October 13, 2002

As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify. Some people have easy temperaments and weak characters; others have difficult temperaments and strong characters. We are all prone to confuse the two in assessing people we associate with. Those with easy temperaments and weak characters are more likable than admirable; those with difficult temperaments and strong characters are more admirable than likable.

Sydney J. Harris

There's this thing in Hollywood about the sympathetic character and likability. I've never understood that because the people I love most in my life are not likable all the time. My wife is not always likable. I'm certainly not always likable. My dad is not always likable. We're human beings.

Derek Cianfrance

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

William Least Heat-Moon

The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Dave Barry

You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books.

John Glenn

Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!

Buzz Aldrin

There's no map for you to follow and take your journey. You are Lewis and Clark. You are the mapmaker.

Phillipa Soo

Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.

Matthew Shultz

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark.

Chief Joseph

I don't recall exactly when I first began reading about Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery, but I suspect that it was in fourth grade.

Joseph Bruchac

I've always tried to coach people the way I would like to be coached; positively and encouragingly rather than with criticism and fear ... I've tried to be as fair as possible.

Tony Dungy

At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace.

Joseph Bruchac

When you start to prioritize hiring likable people within your organization, these likable people will attract other likable people.

Karen Salmansohn

I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.