Quotes About Succession

When Herod the Great died in 4 B.C.E., Augustus split his realm among his three sons

Assuming you rise to the top, please remember: what made you great may not be appropriate for the next generation.

be honest, he sometimes felt a creeping impatience for his father to quit the scene, leaving John as his uncle's direct heir.

Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations as boni patres familias [good heads of the household].

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation

Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

...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.

There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.

Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.

All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.

On his deathbed, Haidar had written to Tipu with advice to his son on the art of good government. He warned him that the Company would attempt to exploit any weakness in the succession: 'The greatest obstacle you have to conquer is the jealousy of the Europeans,' he wrote. 'The English are today all-powerful in India. It is necessary to weaken them by war.

The lot—and often indeed the aim—of most professional bourgeois was to vegetate in modest, undemanding, but comfortable circumstances, finding wives of similar background and being succeeded in their office or calling by their children and grandchildren

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.