Succession Quotes

There is no lift in succession,U must take the stairs.

— Anonymous

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

— Howard Zinn

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

— Thornton Wilder

A leader's lasting value is measured by succession.

— John C. Maxwell

There's loads of succession stories to draw on.

— Jesse Armstrong

“Crowns are hourly tumbling.”

— A. H. Septimius

I do love Brian Cox in 'Succession.'

— Angela Scanlon

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

— George Sand

Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.

— Roger Caras

Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

— Carl Hubbell

History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.

— Max Lucado

Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.

— William Shakespeare

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

— Theodor Adorno

Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.

— Peter Drucker

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

— Swami Vivekananda

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that…

— Robert Cormier

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

— Anonymous

Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

— Alexander Pushkin

Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally…

— Paul Brunton

I worked on three independent movies in close succession and I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make…

— Michael Urie

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I was working with an extraordinarily successful company that was doing a CEO succession, and the board was discussing the threats to…

— Justin Menkes

Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse;…

— Samuel Smiles

All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion -…

— Swami Vivekananda

I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided…

— Thomas Jefferson

And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna…

— Douglas Adams

If from one burning lamp someone lights another, then another from that one, and so on in succession, he has light continuously.…

— Gregory Palamas

Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and…

— Andrew Dickson White

Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little…

— Christopher Morley

Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and…

— Adam Sedgwick

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by…

— Edgar Allan Poe

It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of…

— Joyce Appleby

“The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like…

— Terry Pratchett

Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a…

— Plutarch

Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of…

— Ludwig Boltzmann