Predecessors Quotes

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If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully human and fully… — Juan Williams
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better… — Stankyrich
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. — William Faulkner
It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able… — John Jay Hooker
Barack Obama is a truly flabbergasting President. And in a good way - not the way some of his predecessors were. He's not flabberghastly. He's… — Tom Shale
The people who join the mob now are second- and third-generation and don't have the values their predecessors had. — Ronald Goldstock
Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves,… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as… — Samuel Johnson
Some guys are just very, very interested in their sport and their predecessors. I know I was a guy like that when I was a… — Bill Parcells
Then seeing that we are not borne for our selves, but each to helpe other, and our abilities are much alike at the houre of… — John Smith
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better that yourself! — William Faulkner

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