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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• Great things do not just happen by impulse,
  but as a succession of small things linked together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Together, Impulse, Great Things

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• SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.

  Mark Batterson

  Years, Fifty, Tests

  Twitter post from Feb 22, 2015

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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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• In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen. Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Differences, Giving

  "That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen". Book by Frédéric Bastiat, 1850.

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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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• We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Silence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

  Gerald Vann

  Truth, Long, Church

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• I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.

  John Irving

  Years, Civilization, Perception

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.562, Random House

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

  Corita Kent

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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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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• life is a succession of readjustments.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Change, Life Is

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• To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.

  Jack Kornfield

  Live Life, Errors, Understanding

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2015

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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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• 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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