Elders Quote by Michael Foot

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

— Richard Whately

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

— Juvenal

No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.

— Seneca the Younger

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

— Peter Drucker

There is no success without a successor.

— John C. Maxwell

He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging…

— Ronald Steel

Where the # elderly are not honored, there is no future for the young.

— Pope Francis

Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

— James D. Watson

He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.

— Anonymous

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

— Albert Camus

No politician has a 50-year horizon.

— Steve Jurvetson