Successors Quotes

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

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

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

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.

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.