Succession Quotes

Welcome to our collection of insightful Succession Quotes! Succession, the process of one thing following another in order or sequence, is a fundamental aspect of life and nature. Whether it’s the passing of seasons, the transfer of power in a company, or the inheritance of traits from one generation to the next, succession plays a significant role in shaping our world.

Throughout history, thinkers, leaders, and philosophers have contemplated the concept of succession, offering wisdom and perspectives that illuminate its complexities. From reflections on leadership transitions to musings on the continuity of life itself, these quotes provide valuable insights into the nature of succession and its impact on individuals and societies.

Below, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes that delve into various aspects of succession. Feel free to draw inspiration from these words, whether you’re seeking motivation, reflection, or simply a deeper understanding of this universal phenomenon.

WhatsApp has a consistent history – from zero encryption at its inception to a succession of security issues strangely suitable for surveillance purposes. Pavel Durov

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. Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The most that one of Jewish faith can do – and some have gladly done it – is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian. Kenneth Scott Latourette

Family business management is a discipline that has evolved from an art into a science. The market for this line of education has been created by the growing recognition of family-run companies that shareholders are demanding greater clarity on issues ranging from succession to the management of wealth and the distribution of profits. Sanjaya Baru

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order. Carl Hubbell

Fidelity does have a succession plan in place to ensure a smooth transition. Edward Johnson, III

Britain has had some very strong and successful queens throughout history, but, since the Act of Succession in 1701, they have only been eligible to take the throne if they had no brothers. If there was a boy in the family, no matter where he came in the order of birth, he leapfrogged his sisters to take the title. Penny Junor

My brother Arthur was born in 1951. I came next, followed by three more siblings in rapid succession. Alex Tizon

Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession. Jerry Saltz

The first phase of C was – really, it was two phases in short succession of, first, some language changes from B, really adding the type structure without too much change in the syntax, and doing the compiler. The second phase was slower; it all took place within a very few years, but it was a bit slower, so it seemed. Dennis Ritchie

I think we’re ready for succession. We just must try to do it right. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. Max Planck

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

A woman’s life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. Wallis Simpson

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

‘The New Jedi Order’ was a pure publishing project: a single massive story – virtually one huge novel spread across multiple volumes – told by a succession of authors. Matthew Stover

I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between. Darrell Royal

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

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want. Jean Vanier

I used to work for a succession of software editing companies that would have contracts with state and federal agencies. And I would be the documenter of meetings, sometimes doing limited business analysis. I began to become quite cynical about how the world works. It works on ineptitude and inefficiency and a kind of passiveness. Jeff Vandermeer

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I’ve dated nothing but a succession of blondes. Hugh Hefner

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

Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board. Edward Johnson, III

A lot of research went into ‘Succession.’ I wrote the pilot solo, so there was a good deal of my own research and life experience in there. Jesse Armstrong

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

Succession moments are always dangerous for democracies. Jesse Armstrong

There is no one leader that’s going to unify all of Syria that suddenly everyone is going to go, ‘Yes, that’s a logical place.’ They’re not unified. They don’t have a setup succession like we do in the United States. James Lankford

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

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. Lewis Mumford

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead. John Dalberg-Acton

I think I’m one of those people that kind of thinks everybody’s got an identity, and maybe that’s the core of their personality. But I think we change enough over the years that it’s like a succession of different people. Robin Sloan

For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier. Stacy Schiff

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. John Drinkwater

The role of a board of directors is to be a sounding board for the vision of the company – to hold executives accountable in executing that vision and to ensure a management succession plan is in place. Mellody Hobson

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures. Josiah Gilbert Holland

I found out I got ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn’t expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It’s been an overwhelming experience. Florence Pugh

Sometimes in your career, you are at the right place at the right moment. But you have to be aware that eventually you may no longer be the right person for that position. So build your succession and foster for it while you are still at the peak of you career. Joanne Liu

My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that – I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with. Walter Murch

But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession. Lactantius

Sweep picking is when the right hand sweeps down and up the strings in succession. But when you do sweep picking, one note rings into the next, and it sounds almost like you’re playing a chord, and that’s exactly what you don’t want. Yngwie Malmsteen

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

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. Josiah Gilbert Holland

To go from hit-and-miss promotions barely taking women’s fighting seriously to women headlining on a regular basis, high-level fights, it’s an amazing thing to see. And it happened in what I felt was a pretty quick succession – though not fast enough – as far as professional sports go. It’s really exciting. Sharice Davids

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. Aldous Huxley

By 2013, at the age of 29, I was failing. I had left two good jobs in succession to complete a novel I’d been tooling around with since 2009, had enrolled in a graduate programme in Texas, as far away from home as possible, to finish it – and yet: what did I have to show for it after five years of work? Karan Mahajan

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. Jane Austen

There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now. Julian Barbour

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

I do love Brian Cox in ‘Succession.’ Angela Scanlon

I really do believe in succession building and giving people experience for future leadership. Lois Frankel

We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another. Henry L. Stimson

What Adam McKay did with illuminating the financial crisis in ‘The Big Short,’ he’s now doing with the media in ‘Succession.’ Jeremy Strong

There’s loads of succession stories to draw on. Jesse Armstrong

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan. Al-Waleed bin Talal

One of the most painful parts of a breakup is having the feeling that your life is a story, and then the other person leaves and takes the story with them. And you’re left there without it. You’re left in this version of life that’s basically a succession of events and interactions that don’t seem to be going anywhere. Elif Batuman

People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and you don’t have an institution develop around that teacher within about a generation to transmit succession within the group, the movement just dies. Elaine Pagels

The destruction of Chinese traditional culture didn’t start in 1949. It started long before that, with the succession of revolutions. It was particularly bad during the Cultural Revolution, the destruction of traditional Chinese culture. Gao Xingjian

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? Lactantius

When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country’s northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West. Hanya Yanagihara

It is hardly plausible to view a whole succession of logics as an evolutionary and functional program of innate wiring, particularly in light of the fact that the most mature logical structures are reached only by some adults. Lawrence Kohlberg

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. Alfred Eisenstaedt

The industry has to learn how to do CEO succession well. If your definition of success is Intel or Microsoft or HP or IBM, that’s not a good track record, and yet they are the most successful ones. John T. Chambers

One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it’s almost a non-event when it happens. Anne M. Mulcahy

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. J. Donald Walters

The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines. H. P. Lovecraft

In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena. Wilhelm Wundt

I’m interested in where I’m going and the people I am there to see. Going to Cuba was a great example of that, and the succession of going into Cuba, which is not a very easy place to get into, and playing music for people who have never seen a live rock concert outdoors like that. Chris Cornell

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. Claude Vorilhon

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

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

You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people – 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there. Al-Waleed bin Talal

I think every responsible public board at every board meeting should be discussing succession. And, of course, Walmart has a very mature board: our chairman Rob Walton and other members. So succession is an ongoing. I think when I first joined the board of directors, it was discussed then. And it’s discussed at every board meeting continually. Mike Duke

For me, it’s very easy to write a horror movie that’s just a succession of scary sequences, but it’s hard to find horror movies that have a genuine theme to them that are really exploring some aspect of our psychology and our fears. Ehren Kruger

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

Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence. Rajiv Gandhi

Nigeria shed the last of a succession of brutal military dictatorships in 1997 and adopted a democratic form of government only in 1999. Our elections of 2003, 2007, and 2011 were complicated and fraught with tension, but each one has shown remarkable progress. Uzodinma Iweala

Growing up, I went to the Warped Tour a lot, and I got to see bands like Rancid and AFI and Dropkick Murphys and these bands that meant so much to me when I was a kid – all in succession on these stages, so to get to play that same stage that I watched those bands play is a huge thing for me. Andy Biersack

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

I’m an eighteenth-century girl at heart. I wouldn’t mind being set down in London in 1715, in the midst of all the drama of the Hanoverian succession. Lauren Willig

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. Ernest Dimnet

From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession of scholars, both Indian and European, who have lived in this city, made it their own, and given it of their best. C. V. Raman

Many alternatives to traditional marriage have emerged. People feel free to shop around, experimenting with several living arrangements in succession. And when people do marry, they have different expectations and goals. Stephanie Coontz

Popular culture isn’t a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind. James Rosenquist

Mum was in her early 50s when she had four strokes in quick succession that almost took her off. I’d just come down from Cambridge with a rubbish degree. I spent a year reading to her – her eyesight was badly affected – and making sure she got proper rest. It was a special time but very intense, too. Mel Giedroyc

Acting Is unlike any other profession in the world. It’s a succession of jobs. When ‘The Addams Family’ ends, however good you may be, when that job ends, you end. My gettng the show was a million-to-one shot. Ted Cassidy

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession. Roman Jakobson

‘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

Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other! Cesare Beccaria

It’s true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges. Abbe Pierre

Why do I need succession planning? I’m very alert, I’m very vibrant. I have no intention to retire. Sheldon Adelson

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It’s more often a succession of jerks. Jean Rhys

At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and – if I’d done well enough to earn the honour in last week’s test – with a First World War medal on a striped ribbon pinned to my brown blazer. I must have looked like a chocolate soldier. Ronald Frame

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only. John Nelson Darby

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. Hermann Ebbinghaus

Unlike many hour-long scripted American dramas, ‘Succession’ has very few standing sets. Jesse Armstrong

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone’s lives are sort of a succession, almost like handing the baton of your life off from one person to the next to the next to the next. And hopefully, that goes on for a long time, and the changes are healthy and interesting and not, like, spiraling into darkness. Robin Sloan

‘Palaces for the People’ reads more like a succession of case studies than a comprehensive account of what social infrastructure is, so those looking for a theoretical framework may be disappointed. Pete Buttigieg

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. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning. Denise Morrison

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I am Anton Usov, an educator with a passion for quotes that resonate with the human experience. Over many years, I have curated a collection that reflects wisdom and emotions across time. Join me in exploring the power of words to inspire and enlighten our paths.

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