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Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Effectual Change: Good leaders value change, they accomplish a desired change that gets the organization and society better. -- Anyaele Sam Chiyson
None are drawn to Christ by their calling, nor come to him by believing, but only his sheep, those whom the Father has given him,. Effectual calling runs parallel with eternal election. -- Joseph Alleine
Persuasion is often more effectual than force. -- Aesop
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. -- John Adams
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating. -- Samuel Richardson
Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery. -- Adam Weishaupt
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life. -- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. -- Catherine Drinker Bowen
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
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. -- Isaac Barrow
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution. -- George Washington
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
But my method of the pillar, as it throws the horse yet more upon the haunches, is still more effectual to this purpose, and besides always gives him the ply to the side he goes of. -- William Cavendish
Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation. -- William Ames
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. -- Josiah Warren
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting. -- George Washington
What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones. -- Seneca the Younger
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. -- Thomas Jefferson
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual. -- Seneca the Younger
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent. -- William Hazlitt
To disarm the people is the best and most effectual Way to enslave them. -- George Mason
Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel. -- Josh Billings
To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others. -- John Lubbock
The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. -- William Hazlitt
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual? -- Pliny the Elder
Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire. -- Benjamin Franklin
Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven. -- Benjamin Whichcote
The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products. -- Thomas Malthus
There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death. -- Harvey Williams Cushing
There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death. -- Harvey Williams Cushing
The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example. -- Seneca
Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual. -- Seneca the Younger
Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love. -- Hosea Ballou
It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares. -- John Ray
The best way to reduce emissions and pollution is not through partisan political theater but through developing consensus on areas that will bring about effectual change. -- Richard Burr
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual. -- Seneca the Younger
Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all. -- Francis Bacon
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. (James 5:16) -- Bible
I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy. -- William Banting
We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body -- Thomas Jefferson
Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual. -- Jonathan Edwards
There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic. -- Margaret Oliphant
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. -- James Madison
Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? -- Patrick Henry
intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force. -- Samuel Chadwick
...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
As among all the doctrines of the gospel, there is none opposed with more violence and subtlety than that concerning our regeneration by the immediate, powerful, effectual operation of the Holy Spirit of grace. -- John Owen
Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible. -- Adam Weishaupt
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools. -- John Sterling
The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds ... -- Simone Weil
Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious diet, are the most effectual preservatives against the impure desires of the flesh. -- Edward Gibbon

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