Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.
I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
I lived in a bubble: my whole entire military career where I thought that everything was perfect. And I thought that every time we went overseas and we fought for this country, we were doing it because we were trying to get other people a sliver of the greatness that we have here in the United States of America.
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
A season is not made in a week or two any more than a stellar game epitomizes greatness.
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
Being named Michael Jordan - I think growing up playing sports and having a name like Michael Jordan - and I was extremely competitive - I used to get teased a lot. But it made me want to strive for greatness and be able to compete at whatever I decided to do.
When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
I'm not very ambitious, sorry... I don't get up and think, 'Today, I shall achieve greatness.' It's more, 'Today I might have Marmite on my toast.'
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.
American greatness can be further unlocked if opportunity is expanded to all people within its borders.
