Quotes with succession

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

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  • Bernard M. Baruch 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 M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sister Corita Kent Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
    Sister Corita Kent
    American artist, educator, and advocate for social justice
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Joseph Addison Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Kriyananda 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.
    Kriyananda
    Romanian-born religious leader (born James Donald Walters) (1926 - 2013)
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  • Billie Holiday I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Abbe Pierre 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
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Ernest Dimnet Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • George Eliot Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Jane Austen Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Aldous Huxley Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Charles Dickens 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
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Max Muller No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
    Max Muller
    British-German orientalist and philologist (1823 - 1900)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland 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
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Giordano Bruno The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Leon Trotsky 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
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland 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
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Alfred Eisenstaedt 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
    German-born American photographer and photojournalist (1898 - 1995)
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  • Lewis Mumford 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
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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