Top 139 Successor Quotes & Sayings

During the election of Washington's successor, it became apparent that the country was sharply divided and that the dissatisfaction with Federalist policies was deep and fervent.

When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.

The worst mistake a leader can make is to mentor no one, choose no successor and leave no legacy.

In the case of the Nintendo 3DS, it's supposed to be the successor to Nintendo DS. As soon as the development of the original Nintendo DS was over, we started working on the successor to it.

After guest appearances, I got the offer to do the show as the successor of Arthur Schwartz. It's so much fun.

Who my successor is will be up to the board, not me.

Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy "migration utility" through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.

Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.

I think that not criticizing my successor is a statement unto itself, in terms of trying to create an environment where people are able to have a meaningful discussion or debate without trash talk.

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

I am reproached for allegedly preparing my children, my eldest son, as a successor. I swear to you I have never discussed this idea, even with my family or with my sons.

Two considerations led President Carlos Salinas de Gortari to choose Luis Donaldo Colosio as his successor: history and loyalty.

I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.

I don't feel like I need to be a successor to my mother, or her work.

The original 'Star Trek' series is the classic one. Its successor, 'The Next Generation,' is less lovable, but at its best, it's smarter.

We are engaged in immediate conversations with the White House on deliberations over a successor whom we hope will continue in the general direction of Attorney General Holder.

I don't want to interfere with my successor's presidency.

The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell.

Every epoch dreams its successor.

1. 0 is a number. 2. The immediate successor of a number is also a number. 3. 0 is not the immediate successor of any number. 4. No two numbers have the same immediate successor. 5. Any property belonging to 0 and to the immediate successor of any number that also has that property belongs to all numbers.

'Khalifa' is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name.

it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.

The Lord specifically told me that He has appointed and anointed Daniel Kolenda as my successor.

Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it's nascent.

We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process of regular elections.

You can consider this carved in stone: I rule out becoming Herman Van Rompuy's successor.

Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now its nascent.

Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.

Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.

Everywhere I've managed, I've left a platform for my successor to build on, and this is a great satisfaction for me, even if I don't necessarily get the recognition for it.

Grooming a successor, is it an inheritance? In a democratic party, you don't want leaders appointed that way. They have to be appointed properly by the people.

I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.

Messrs. Washington and Lincoln would be appalled and saddened by what their successor, President Obama, and the modern Democratic Party are doing to the nation they dedicated their lives to keep alive.

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.

The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him.

There is no success without a successor.

I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.

Every global leader that I have seen has at least agreed on one point: I do have the world's most difficult job. But I hope to make it easier for my successor.

I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

For a leader to pick his own successor is a feudal practice.

Leadership success is measured by the success of your successor.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

I feel too young in 2018 to take over the Berlin Philharmonic as the successor to Simon Rattle.

I think nobody should rash things and try to find the successor of Kobe Bryant.

The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.

The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.

I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.

I can say that you [Jill Sander] are my successor on the Green Party ticket so I know a little bit about what you're going through and I'm sure listeners are eager to hear you out.

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.