The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest. — Thomas Hooker Copy Share Image
These mountains were given to us by the Great Chief so that we might never be depressed. — David Daniels Copy Share Image
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our… — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among… — Don Nickles Copy Share Image
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say,… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that...… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our… — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
When Congressman [Mike] Pence was in Congress, he was the chief cheerleader for the privatization of Social Security. Even after President [George… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hard skew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it,… — David Weber Copy Share Image
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The chief difficulty is that God demands of us that we live by faith: faith in God, God's sovereignty over the future,… — Daniel Thambyrajah Niles Copy Share Image
the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge made that critical leap from 'be afraid' to 'be very afraid,' raising the terrorist threat level to… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and… — Meir Shalev Copy Share Image
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too -… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground. — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. — Jack Adams Copy Share Image
The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity. — Claude Lelouch Copy Share Image