Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him in secret. Let this be your chief object in prayer, to realize the presence of your heavenly Father.
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.
After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.
The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.
The chief business of America is business.
If a brand wants to build social communities, capital and influence, it must become the chief celebrant of its community, not its celebrity. This simple shift in approach unlocks enormous transformative potential for brands.
In fact, presidents and vice presidents are automatically audited by the IRS, which hasn't stopped other chief executives from making them public.
Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims.
My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
The judgment that every voter is making of every one of us [running for presidency] who has the experience, who has the vision, who has the judgment to be commander in chief. That is the most important decision for the voters to make. That's a standard I'm held to. And it's a standard everyone else is held to.
One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun!
I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India. . . I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested.
A Chief must show no fear, no worry. . . A Chief is a leader first, and a man second.
Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.