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“The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.”

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Book:The American Presidency

Source: The American Presidency

“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.”

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Author:Elbert Hubbard

“The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions, or the final step of a progression. It is not usually a creation, but a growth, as truly so as is the growth of the trees in the forest.”

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Author:Robert Henry Thurston

“The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.”

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Book:A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings

Source: A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings

“A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced.... No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior.”

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Author:James Weldon Johnson

“It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a good deal more than the conclusion of an unpretentious evening's entertainments; it's a sublime and awesome coda to the career of one of this century's greatest artists.”

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Author:Jonathan Rosenbaum