Predecessors Quotes

Don`t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

This readiness crisis didn`t come out of nowhere. You and your predecessors presided over it.

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.

Don`t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn`t walk in their shoes.

When you are successful, the younger kids sit there and watch the older kids accomplish some special things. It makes them work especially hard in the offseason and when they become juniors and seniors, hopefully they can match the success of their predecessors,

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven`t been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

Now, there`s no such thing as a Video iPod. The new model is simply called the iPod; its thicker, videoless predecessors have gone off to the great eBay in the sky. All the debate about `Will anyone buy a video iPod?` is suddenly moot, because the new model is the same excellent music player plus video.

Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.