Quotes of: Effectual Keyword

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Thomas W. Higginson

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

John Adams

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Aesop

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

Adam Weishaupt

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

Lupe Fiasco

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

Love

But saints and angels behold that glory of God which consists in the beauty of His holiness; and it is this sight only that will melt and humble the hearts of men, wean them from the world, draw them to God, and effectually change them. A sight of th...

The Religious Affections

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Samuel Richardson

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

Adam Smith

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

That defense alone is effectual, sure and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valour.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

The Complete Essays

The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.

Letters from a Stoic

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

Robert Toombs

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

Ida B. Wells

If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.

J.B. Phillips

The death of Christ is their meritorious cause; the Spirit of God and his effectual grace their efficient, working instrumentally with power by the word and ordinances.

The Death of Christ

A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke

The Mystery of the Five Hundred Diamonds