(363 quotes found)
“In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.”
William Booth
“The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.”
Napoleon Hill
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about”
Charles Kingsley
“Security is the chief enemy of mortals.”
William Shakespeare
“It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of h”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.”
Colin Powell
“The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
“Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.”
Robert Penn Warren
“Queen Victoria - this flabby, fat, flatulent looking scion and successor of the most ignoble line of Royal Georges - Her chief claim to the remembrance of posterity will be that she has the means of afflicting the English people with a most prolific”
John Norton
“I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.”
Dan Quayle