Chief Quotes

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

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.

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.