Quotes About Successors

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

well as permission to pass the newly discovered lands on to "our heirs and successors.

the Communists when taking power in Russia of course became successors to an old expansionist empire, in much the same way as the American revolutionaries developed out of the British empire. In both cases the ideologies that justified intervention had developed from concerns that were formed in earlier centuries, under different regimes.

In practice, presidents have typically tended to think of themselves not just as stewards for their party, but also of the presidency itself - preserving the full scope of its constitutional power for their successors is part of their job.

I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

And history teaches this iron law of revolutions: the more extensive the eradication of existing authority, the more its successors must rely on naked power to establish themselves. For,in the end,legitimacy involves an acceptance of authority without compulsion; its absence turns every contest into a test of strength.

For nearly twenty years, Bismarck preserved the peace and eased international tension with his moderation and flexibility. But he paid the price of misunderstood greatness, for his successors and would-be imitators could draw no better lesson from his example than multiplying arms and waging a war which would cause the suicide of European civilization.

But the question for our purposes is whether the broad pattern of world history would have been altered significantly if some genius inventor had not been born at a particular place and time. The answer is clear: there has never been any such person. All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.

Show some courage—be the leader you want to be. Without legacy issues hanging over your head, you'll be able to focus on building up your business to compete better and win, and you'll channel the money you save by resolving issues proactively back into the business. You won't reap all of the financial benefits—your successors will inherit them as well. What you will reap is a legacy; a reputation as a strong, transformational leader.

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors.

Wampanoags did not lose their land any more than Indians elsewhere on the continent. No, colonists and their successors took it through every means at their disposal.

So bring on your inquiry. Present your case, and we'll present ours. Not because we give one single solitary damn for your prepackaged, predetermined 'impartial conclusions,' but because we care about history. Because unlike you, we do care about truth. And because someday your successors, whoever they may be, will have a record of what you actually do here and will revile your memory with all the contempt and all the disdain your actions will so richly merit.

In any case, Jinnah died within a year of independence, leaving his successors divided, or confused, about whether to take their cue from his independence eve call to keep religion out of politics or to build on the religious sentiment generated during the political bargaining for Pakistan.

Considering that Timur had ignored every instrument of government except terror, it is remarkable his immediate successors managed to retain control of most of his empire.

Georges kind of cleaned out the division of all the contenders. But while he was doing that, there were some other guys that were coming to take their place.

The fate of the grand empire which Genghis Khan established was the same with that of all others that have arisen in the world, from time to time, by the extension of the power of great military commanders over widely-separated and heterogeneous nations. The sons and successors to whom the vast possessions descended soon quarreled among themselves, and the immense fabric fell to pieces in less time than it had taken to construct it.

By the late 1960s such visions would inspire Dad's hand-picked successors to implement his Intergalactic Network, now known as the Arpanet. By the 1970s, moreover, they would begin to expand the Arpanet even further, into the network of networks known today as the Internet.

Our Faith will never be true unless it is united to that of St. Peter and the Pontiff, his successors.

Ideas come to us as the successors to griefs, and griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some part of their power to injure the heart; the transformation itself, even, for an instant, releases suddenly a little joy.

Shortly thereafter in 756 Pepin also bestowed on the pope a special "Donation," which gave the pope control of Italian territories won by Pepin from the Lombards and also committed his successors to act as protectors of the papacy.