"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." Teddy Roosevelt, 1899

To help some of you read between the lines... Chief is the one that dares 'mighty things' with his rankings. The one's that whine about his rankings yet have none of their own - fall under the second part of the passage ('poor spirits . . . ').