Quotes about Precedence

So I became great and surpassed all in Jerusalem who had preceded me; and my wisdom remained with me.

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.

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.

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

I do not wish you to believe that I assume to be any better than others who have gone before me.

To give organisations precedence over persons is to subordinate ends to means.

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.