Top 383 Succession Quotes & Sayings

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

A leader's lasting value is measured by succession.

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

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

...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon a succession of balconies a succession of libertines, sparkling glass in hand, toasted the bliss of past and future nights.

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

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

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

Fidelity does have a succession plan in place to ensure a smooth transition.

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

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.

I really do believe in succession building and giving people experience for future leadership.

Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

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

For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there's no getting over it.

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

This is just one little lifetime in a succession of lifetimes.

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

life is a succession of readjustments.

As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

My entire career is a succession of things I did wrong and learned from.

To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy

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

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.

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

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.

Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

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

Purposeful organizations develop the next generation, not simply the next leader. My friend Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author and leading executive coach, does not like the term succession planning. Better to say, "succession development." That means you are focusing on multiple managers and grooming them to lead.

And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession little progress could have been made. Correspondence and succession, the two principles that permeate all mathematics - nay, all realms of exact thought - are woven into the very fabric of our number system.

I think every responsible public board at every board meeting should be discussing succession. And, of course, Walmart has a very mature board: our chairman Rob Walton and other members. So succession is an ongoing. I think when I first joined the board of directors, it was discussed then. And it's discussed at every board meeting continually.

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

Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

It's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments.

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

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

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.

I think we're ready for succession. We just must try to do it right.

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.