"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." Abraham Lincoln Not all leaders are given a winning hand and sometimes failure seems likely. The mark of a good leader is the ability to continue to do the right thing even when success is elusive. Lincoln was more pragmatic than his words reveal but he also knew that sometimes doing the right thing is better than doing the thing most likely to bring success. From that all leaders can learn