Top 100 Quotes About Succession
#1. No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.
Wendell Berry
#2. For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
#3. It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.
Robert Duvall
#4. Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
Carl Hubbell
#5. Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
Edmund Beecher Wilson
#6. The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.
Elliot Richardson
#8. Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure, but never enjoy it.
Seneca.
#9. There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.
Leanda De Lisle
#10. There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
Idries Shah
#11. Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.
Rudolf Arnheim
#12. To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#13. Moltmann indicates, "the Church can only be apostolic when it takes up its cross. Its apostolic succession is the succession of the suffering Christ
Henry G. Covert
#14. I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.
John Nelson Darby
#16. immersed in a seemingly never-ending stream of thoughts, coming willy-nilly one after another in rapid succession.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#17. What needed to stop was the succession of dates with these relatively impressive, relatively interesting people, when I could tell from the first minute that everyone here was going to end as a runner-up in a long race to nowhere in particular, broken-down, exhausted, no one wearing a medal.
B.J. Novak
#18. Was friend the word? He seemed more like a succession of extraordinary events than a person.
Douglas Adams
#19. Sometimes it's about the economic situation and sometimes it's about the fear of others. Sometimes it's about protecting the generally accepted values. If you look at history, history is just a succession of people meeting other people, either through commerce, voyages or wars.
Philippe Falardeau
#20. The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
Swami Vivekananda
#21. In all things we become acclimated; this is our strength in wartime, and also our weakness. What is a principle, if it alter with circumstance?
But what is a man, if he cannot change to meet changed times?
And if he can change to meet changed times, is he a man, or several in succession?
M T Anderson
#22. 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
#23. The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a succession of revolutions, is, in reality, a series of developements.
William Whewell
#24. Eternity is without succession, a simultaneous possession of all joys. To those who live toward Eternity, it really is not something at the end; it is that which influences every moment of the now.
Fulton J. Sheen
#25. 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
#26. You need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.
Richard Dawkins
#27. Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#28. I hastened, ... , back to London, ... ; for here you have the advantage of solitude without its disadvantage, since you may be alone and in company at the same time; and while you walk or sit unobserved, noise, hurry, and a constant succession of objects entertain the mind,
Henry Fielding
#29. Great things do not just happen by impulse,
but as a succession of small things linked together.
Vincent Van Gogh
#30. There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#31. I said I thought I liked Dean's idea of a succession of lives - I can't make out from him whether he really believes that or not - and Ilse said that might be all very well if you were sure of being born again as a decent person, but how about it if you weren't?
L.M. Montgomery
#32. The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The Self is present as Pure Presence, not as everlasting duration, a rather horrible notion.
Ken Wilber
#33. So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.
Jeremy Taylor
#34. 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.
Vladimir Nabokov
#35. No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear ...
Han Suyin
#36. Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass!
The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!
Milan Kundera
#37. Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.
William Shakespeare
#39. Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#40. Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
Voltaire
#41. I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast
Francis Ford Coppola
#42. Having a succession and legacy plan in place will make you ready for forced changes due to circumstances beyond your control, like death, any form of incapacity, sudden changes in laws and regulations and even corporate scandals and moral failure.
Archibald Marwizi
#43. The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.
Maria Montessori
#44. My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
Mikhail Lermontov
#45. The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.
Milan Kundera
#46. 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
#47. The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#48. We would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.
Aristotle.
#49. I breathe in sharply, and then I breathe out slowly. Life is just a series of breaths in and out. All I really have to do in this world is breathe in and then breathe out, in succession, until I die. I can do that. I can breathe in and out.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#50. Fidelity does have a succession plan in place to ensure a smooth transition.
Edward Johnson, III
#51. For decades, [Toyota] used the practice of asking why five times in succession as a means of getting to the root of a particular manufacturing problem.
Anonymous
#52. When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.
Frantz Fanon
#53. My entire career is a succession of things I did wrong and learned from.
Roy Sekoff
#54. I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library at 24 Sussex, seeing my mother in tears, and hearing her talk about leaving while my father stood facing her, stern and ashen.
Justin Trudeau
#55. In fact, she would have added the rider that she wasn't sure it could be done at all, getting to know someone at any succession of such parties, however prolonged.
Robin McKinley
#56. Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
Samuel Beckett
#57. The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins
Saul Alinsky
#58. Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
Roman Jakobson
#59. There's no part of the ceremony where the priest, acting in the place of God, warns the guests not to murder the bridegroom because it might jeopardize the succession.
Orson Scott Card
#60. I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and wrong.
Henry James
#61. What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots?
Peter Watts
#62. What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
Alphonse De Lamartine
#63. Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.
Andrew Weil
#64. Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.
Samuel Johnson
#65. Eternity is not an unending succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the supreme moment of satisfaction, in which totality embraces us and we embrace totality.
Pope Benedict XVI
#66. To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy
Smith Wigglesworth
#67. People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.
Steve Hely
#68. None but the Creator has knowledge of the future; If anyone says he knows it, do not believe him! - Baba Musafir (d. 1714), a Naqshbandi Sufi saint, speaking about the war of succession among Aurangzeb's sons
Audrey Truschke
#69. I like babies in moderation, but twins three times in succession is TOO MUCH. I told Mrs. Hammond so firmly, when the last pair came.
L.M. Montgomery
#70. Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but "lies asleep."
H. P. Blavatsky
#71. In the Middle Ages, the Roman Catholic papacy developed into an abusive, corrupt, autocratic, totalitarian system by claiming apostolic authority through a supposed line of succession back to Peter.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#72. That's the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there's somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I've arrived. (Of course there is no such place. There's only a succession of waitings until you go home.)
David Gilmour
#73. The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
Leon Trotsky
#74. My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth ...
Nikola Tesla
#75. When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.
Karl Jaspers
#76. To walk, we have to lean forward, lose our balance and begin to fall. We let go constantly of the previous stability, falling all the time, trusting that we will find a succession of new stabilities with each step.
Robin Skynner
#77. I don't think of you as perfect.
"Oh ... ok." My eyelashes blinked in rapid succession and my brain started compiling the list of
all my imperfections, "It's because of my height? My seepage of trivial facts? My granny panties-
Penny Reid
#78. The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of vital import; and thanks to the succession of discoveries which have been made of late years, we know more about it than of the history of any other ancient book in the world.
Frederic G. Kenyon
#79. There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretching ever in sight, with the scenery merging and blending, into a succession of quick, unrelated scenes...
F Scott Fitzgerald
#80. Life is a succession of misunderstandings, leading us on to the final truth, the only truth.
Roberto Bolano
#81. He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
Victor Hugo
#82. In the months that followed he brought a rapid succession of cases to court - as he recalled, smelling somewhat of midnight oil.
Anthony Everitt
#83. Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
Vicente Aleixandre
#84. AVERT DISASTER, in fact, would have been a perfect school motto - the purpose of the place, as far as Schwartz could tell, was to keep three thousand would-be maniacs sedated by boredom until a succession of birthdays transformed them into adults.
Chad Harbach
#85. Prison is a process, a succession of imprisonments. At first it operates only on a physical level, restricting your movement. Later, it extends to the psychological plane, encompassing your very perception. You come to exclude all thoughts, all visions of the free world.
Norman Parker
#86. Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
Garrett Hardin
#87. The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to your fellowmen. That is creative living! For you, life can be a succession of glorious adventures. Or it can be a monotonous bore.
Take your choice!
Neil Gaiman
#88. 'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the next one.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#89. We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this order is the one which presents the elements of the proposition in the succession in which they may be most readily put together.
Herbert Spencer
#90. If she could inherit, she would thus wrongly transmit her paternal family's riches to that of her husband: she is carefully excluded from the succession.
Simone De Beauvoir
#91. We have very strong succession plans across all group companies. But we do not comment on it. The retirement age is 60 years, but it does not apply to family professionals who work in the business.
Adi Godrej
#92. Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.
Immanuel Kant
#93. Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.
Constant Lambert
#94. St. Ignatius was second in succession to St. Peter as bishop of Antioch. He was a student of Christ's most beloved apostle John. So what Ignatius wrote pulses with the authority Christ gave to Peter and the heart John could hear beating at the Last Supper.
George William Rutler
#95. The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.
Camille Saint-Saens
#96. [Duration is] the form which the succession of our conscious states assumes when our ego lets itself live, when it refrains from separating its present state from its former state.
Henri Bergson
#97. For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there's no getting over it.
Hugh Hefner
#98. Matrilineal succession is the only thing that makes sense as far as I'm concerned, since you always know who the mother is, and the father could be anyone. Most of the royal dynasties of the world didn't agree with me though, which is why history is filled with idiot kings.
April White
#99. A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Honore De Balzac
#100. One may characterize physics as the doctrine of the repeatable, be it a succession in time or the co-existence in space. The validity of physical theorems is founded on this repeatability.
Friedrich Hund
