Quotes About Succession

Magistrates rule by an established rotation; kings reign for life.

Things always happen in series.

Kings and queens are expected to have offspring to carry on the name. There are no such demands on American presidents, but there is an expectation. There is a hope.

People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.

Only the very best clubs are able to pass the baton of continuity down through the generations.

I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.

I don't know another Philippine company that has lasted three generations, except for Ayala. Maybe Aboitiz is going to the third.

There is a real sense of loss when a family sells a business they've spent generations building. I wanted to get some of that back.

I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.

If you're given gifts or blessings in your life, it's up to you to help the guy coming up behind you.

Nothing avails: every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for mastership.   [408]

The deletion of an apostrophe and a single letter turned "Jane's" into "Jane," and the words "and her" were inserted immediately thereafter. Now the crown was to pass not to the male heirs of Jane Grey but to "the Lady Jane and her heirs masles." (Edward was of course highly literate, but spelling was a kind of free-form creative art in the sixteenth century

Every group has its time. Nobody reigns forever, except Michael Jackson. So, you've gotta be ready for that - and be wise about what you're doing.

You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.

The Book of Mormon is a second witness of Jesus Christ and a manifestation of the truthfulness of the Prophet Joseph Smith. I love the Prophet Joseph. I love President Gordon B. Hinckley, who is the prophet of God and holds all the keys of the kingdom at this time, keys which prophets have held in uninterrupted succession since Joseph Smith.

With popular rulers, the wife can become the guardian of their greatness: Peter the Great was succeeded by his wife, Catherine I. Sometimes the wives are an improvement.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I'm going be training that child out the womb.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

A founder can carry an institution only so far, and then others have to step in, even the alumni. That's how an institution becomes one.

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

Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?

There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it is time for others to take the baton that was passed to me following the crash. I have therefore decided to leave political life at the end of this term.

There definitely comes a time where a fresh pair of eyes and fresh leadership would be good, and the Conservative Party has got some great people coming up - the Theresa Mays, and the George Osbornes, and the Boris Johnsons.

As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don't have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It's like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out be rather pleasant.