The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
You know, the commander-in-chief's first responsibility is look out for those in uniform who fight the wars.
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.
As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.
The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
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.
Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.
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 chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.
Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.
Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'
