Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.
I always knew I was destined for greatness.
I always knew and my parents always knew I was destined for greatness. I didn't know what sport it was going to be in. I played football, baseball and wrestling.
Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?
Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came from individuals with different perspectives coming together.
When you live in Washington, D.C., you do get a sense, in a very direct way, of the durability of our government and really, the greatness of the American system.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.
When one guy is doing good, it makes all the others want to achieve greatness.
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
The more you rely/trust and believe in your team and the bigger the investment you make in getting them to their greatness, the larger will be the commitment, engagement, and outright devotion they have when it comes to you.
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
