Quotes on Chiefs

I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.

Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.

Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.

The chief difference [between totalitarian and free countries] is that only the totalitarians appear clearly to know how they want to achieve that result, while the free world has only its past achievements to show, being by its very nature unable to offer any detailed "plan" for further growth.

Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status.

Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

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