79 Forerunner Quotes
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Famous Forerunner Quotes
Better the first of its kind than the last — Greek Proverbs
To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone. — Harry S. Truman
Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it. — Mao Zedong
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. — Hugh Walpole
A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. — Nelson Mandela
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. — Alan Perlis
You have to go charging ahead, you can't stay behind. — Grace Coddington
The early comer is better than the hard worker. — Filipino Proverbs
What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent. — Tacitus
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy. — G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us. — Joseph Campbell
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack. — D. Wayne Lukas
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. — Ayn Rand
Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring. — Heinz Guderian
To change the world, you must be different than the world. To lead, you must go first. You must divert from the common path, you must navigate unmapped terrain. — Brianna Wiest
Short Forerunner Quotes
- You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner. — Ma Huateng
- Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. — Carlos Fuentes
- Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions. — Eric Butterworth
- Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty. — Thomas Jefferson
- Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas. — George W. Crane
- For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles. — Jim Capaldi
- Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener. — Francis Marion Crawford
- Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. — Geraldine Brooks
- I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz. — John Scofield
- Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred. — Margaret of Valois
Forebears Quotes
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. — Carter G. Woodson
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs. — Mary Mcleod Bethune
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. — Robert E. Lee
Let us listen to the voices of our Forebears ... In the smoky cabin, souls that wish us well are murmuring. — Leopold Sedar Senghor
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. — Diane Abbott
The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation. — Robert Louis Stevenson
All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture. — Mangosuthu Buthelezi
The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men. — Ambrose Bierce
OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality. — Janet Suzman
He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them. — James Reston, Jr.
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Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique. — Don Meyer
Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate. — Sigmund Freud
I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister - a near relation, a more affectionate Friend; and I rejoice to follow Him, and to love Him. Blessed Jesus! Thou art all I want - a forerunner to me in all I ever shall go through as a Christian, a minister, or a missionary. — Henry Martyn
As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to to maintain the existence of Nothing. — Frederick the Great
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States. — Albert Bushnell Hart
The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise have been deservedly the boast of their century, served but as obscure forerunners of Newton's glories. — Thomas Young
Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
God is merely tuning the soul, as an instrument, in this life. And these joys of the Christian, are only the notes and chords that are sounded out in the preparation--preludes to the perfect harmony that shall flood the soul--forerunners of the perfected and rapturous joy that shall bless the soul, in that exceeding and eternal weight of glory. — Herrick Johnson
SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death. — Ambrose Bierce
Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline. — Joe Shuster
Shades of Grey. I haven't read it yet, but what you have to read carefully, is “Story of O” by the French writer Dominique Aury. This is actually the forerunner of all the whole SM novels and it's really good. You have to read it. — Theo Hutchcraft
Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest. — Margaret Mead
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light. — Pope John XXIII
If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I should suppress it with a blush; and I should do the same if I ever found I were imitating myself. Every poem should be new, unexpected, inimitable, and incapable of being parodied. — Robert Graves
To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain. — Samuel Johnson
Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur. — Robert Genn
Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation. — Kahlil Gibran
Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. — Thomas Jefferson
Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world. — George Gardner
Pat Buchanan has emerged as the prophet and forerunner of a real economic nationalism on the right, and Donald Trump is now its tribune. This is not movement ideology which is all about limited government, the power of free markets and also internationally - globalism. — Sam Tanenhaus
And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come. — Lyndon B. Johnson
There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it. — Dennis Kimbro
Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path. — Buddha
Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication. — Charles Spurgeon
Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure. — Rumi
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. — Thomas Jefferson
This is where Wulf’s people would get drunk and party for a week. All hail the Vikings, forerunners to the frat boys! (Chris) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere. — Dodie Smith
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