Chief Quotes

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America.

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.

A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.

And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.