Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
A. S. Byatt
If you break an individual record, it's because of the greatness that comes before you.
Abby Wambach
Franklin Delano Roosevelt eventually became the greatest liberal leader of 20th century United States, but he started as a fiscal conservative. His greatness is founded in his willingness to change his mind to save his country from the Great Depression.
Abhijit Banerjee
Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.
Abu Bakr
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
Afrika Bambaataa
I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
Ahmet Ertegun
The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
America's space program has been the envy and inspiration of the world. It has made landmark scientific discoveries that are a lasting legacy of this nation's greatness. It has studied Earth in ways no other nation can match.
Alan Stern
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
Alexis de Tocqueville
This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.
Allen West
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
Amelia Barr
I love a song that will usher in the very presence of God. Then there's no Andrae; there's no fabulous band, there's no greatness of ours. I've had hundreds of concerts like that, and that's what I try to achieve.
Andrae Crouch
Chasing greatness - it's what I'm about.
Andre Ward
I think there are more religious overtones in music because these artists want to be connected to greatness. What is greater or higher than God himself?
Andy Mineo
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
Anne Frank
Greatness for me is the ability to focus under pressure.
Anthony Martial
Greatness comes to those who wait.
Anthony Rendon
No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.
Archibald Alexander
I just feel Black women, we get slept on a lot and people don't recognize our greatness in our curls and in chocolate skin.
Ari Lennox
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Greatness is empowered in a system where you pass the ball, not pound it.
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Part of the greatness of being on the Island is it's a smaller community; all of the players live within a couple miles of each other. It really promotes that family sort of atmosphere without being engulfed by the big city.
I want our leaders to lead our country to greatness, but President Obama and his misguided policies and ideology have really fundamentally changed our country in the wrong way, more so than any president in our history.
I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you can't miss with that.
My dad was very critical and had very high expectations without a lot of the details filled in. It was, 'I expect you to achieve greatness in grades, in athletics, in whatever you do.'
Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.
The Evolution of Greatness' was an amazing experience, and it's something that we hope to have been a steppingstone for us to come back and not only do more NBA All-Star performances, but do halftime performances at events like the Super Bowl.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
People talking about making America great again? America's never been great. The greatness of America is in its pursuit of greatness.
You are watching what greatness is all about.
It's easy to deprecate some of the puffery and jingoism that often go with affirmations of 'American greatness.' It's also easy to confuse greatness with perfection, as if evidence of our shortcomings is proof of our mediocrity.
American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
I'm all about spontaneity. I think it makes for greatness.
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness.
From leading the world into the age of democracy to spearheading the technological revolution, America has always been at the forefront of greatness.
I'm trying to stay focused - trying to open up again - and the music really did a lot of greatness for me and meeting a lot of people that really had concern and compassion for me.
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
France cannot be France without greatness.
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others. Many business men fail in this because they are thinking only of personal glory.
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
