Effectually Quotes

#1. No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.

Millicent Fawcett

#2. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

#3. It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

Ezra Stiles

#4. Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

George Washington

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

Robert Barr

#6. My mistake has too often been that of too much haste. But it is not the people's way to hurry, nor is it God's way either. Hurry means worry, and worry effectually drives the peace of God from the heart.

James O. Fraser

#7. Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.

Thomas More

#8. It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

Isaac Newton

#9. Work eagerly.
Work effectually.
Work energetically.
Work enduringly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Michel De Montaigne

#11. If we rebuke our heart by a calm, mild remonstrance, with more compassion for it than passion against it and encourage it to make amendment, then repentance conceived in this way will sink far deeper and penetrate more effectually than fretful, angry, stormy repentance.

Francis De Sales

#12. A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

William Shenstone

#13. The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.

Roger L'Estrange

#14. I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Lord Chesterfield

#15. Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.

Bayley

#16. If any one giveth thee excessive Praises more than can handsomely belong to thee, thou art to think of him, that he taketh thee for vain and credulous, and easy to be deceived, and effectually a Fool.

Thomas Fuller

#17. Would to God I were rid of this nether millstone within me, this hateful body of death. Blessed be the name of the Lord, the disease is not incurable, the Saviour's precious blood is the universal solvent, and me, even me, it will effectually soften, till my heart melts as wax before the fire.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#18. How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually to the choice of good, when the fact is, that it must be wholly transformed and renewed?

John Calvin

#19. We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

Blaise Pascal

#20. Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

Edmund Burke

#21. The sole constitutional office of language being to express our ideas and sentiments, it becomes more and more perfect and useful, the more effectually it subserves this sole end of its creation.

Orson Squire Fowler

#22. In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled.

John Burroughs

#23. Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

Lord Chesterfield

#24. When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy

Brigham Young

#25. [The popular impression about some chemists is that] the aquafortis and the chlorine of the laboratories have as effectually bleached the poetry out of them, as they destroy the colours of tissues exposed to their action.

George Wilson

#26. Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.

George Washington

#27. His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.

H.G.Wells

#28. A great brain and a huge organization have been turned
to the extinction of one man. It is crushing the nut with the
triphammer
an absurd extravagance of energy
but the nut is very
effectually crushed all the same.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#29. A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.

Lord Chesterfield

#30. 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.

John Bertram Phillips

#31. An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.

Charles Spurgeon

#32. The valuable improvements made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cannot certainly be too much admired; but it would be an unwarrantable partiality, to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected.

Alexander Hamilton

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

Edmund Burke

#34. Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#35. 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

#36. Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.

Charles Caleb Colton

#37. Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Cesare Beccaria

#38. Effectually the unlucky ones are signing their own death warrants whilst the people who have started the conflict sit back in comfort and safety of their bomb-proof hideaway.

Bill D'oa

#39. Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.

Thomas Huxley

#40. We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#41. It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

Edmund Burke

#42. The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.

Roger Sherman

#43. A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.

Thomas Jefferson

#44. Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger.

Samuel Johnson