Ineffectual Quotes

48 Ineffectual quotes by 40 unique authors

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men. — John Noble
The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's… — Patrick Duffy
Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the… — Donna Farhi
A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness… — Eric Hoffer
The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In… — Eric Hoffer
The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should… — Eric Hoffer
The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness. — Eric Hoffer
The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self… — Eric Hoffer
The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by… — Eric Hoffer
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes… — Blaise Pascal
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise… — Frank Herbert
'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual. — Michael Palin
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. — Susan Sontag
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual… — Soren Kierkegaard
For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things… — Margaret Mahy
He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside. — Philip K. Dick
If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael — Daniel Quinn
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. — Honore de Balzac
If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if… — Paul Graham
He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, I have lived. Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world… — Horace
Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may… — John Jay
A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world becausehe is a jackass; but… — Mark Twain

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