Succession Quotes

• A leader's lasting value is measured by succession.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader, Lasting, Values

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.257, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Peter Drucker

  Planning, Results, Representation

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• Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Morning, Light, Shadow

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• A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.

  Ari Kiev

  Fate, Successful, Doe

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• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

  J. G. Holland

  Inspirational, Positive, Patience

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• Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

  Jean Vanier

  Identity, Want, Who We Are

  Jean Vanier (2001). “Seeing Beyond Depression”, p.35, Paulist Press

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• That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

  J. G. Holland

  Positive Life, Positive Inspirational, Positive Outlook

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• The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

  Howard Zinn

  Hope, Future, Thinking

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.208, Beacon Press

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• No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

  Max Planck

  Happiness, Men, Inner Peace

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• Why do I need succession planning? Im very alert, Im very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.

  Sheldon Adelson

  Needs, Planning, Intention

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• life is a succession of readjustments.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Change, Life Is

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• Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

  Corita Kent

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• Because someone is a lama or is part of a monastic order or claims to be part of a succession, doesn't really mean they know anything. Always examine the individual's consciousness, their ability to transmit light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Light, Order

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• ...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Long, Littles

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.60, Penguin UK

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• Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

  Voltaire

  Depression, Thinking, Bipolar

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• Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Mistake, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

  Howard Zinn

  Hope, Kindness, Future

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• One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ordinary Days, Ordinary

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• For nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

  Charles Dickens

  Good Morning, Beauty, Time

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.207

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• Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Autumn, Giving

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.165

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• During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

  Bernard Baruch

  Character, Technology, Thinking

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”

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• A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Education, Eye, Belief

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• Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Respect, Passion

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1856). “The Spectator”, p.318

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• Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Busy, Mansfield Park

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