Quotes about Precedence
So I became great and surpassed all in Jerusalem who had preceded me; and my wisdom remained with me.
— Ecclesiastes 2:9
For first must give place to last, because last must have its time to come; but last gives place to nothing; for there is not another to succeed.
— John Bunyan
You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.
— Maya Angelou
Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
— John Milton
I do not wish you to believe that I assume to be any better than others who have gone before me.
— Abraham Lincoln
To give organisations precedence over persons is to subordinate ends to means.
— Aldous Huxley
Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.
— Ravi Zacharias