Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation. – Susan B. Anthony
Neither fire, sword, nor banishment can retard reform, but it rather hastens it forward. – Jaques Auguste De Thou
Reform is China’s second revolution. – Deng Xiaoping
All reforms are matters of the moment; fruit of any kind plucked and eaten before ripe is sure to have unpleasant effects on all sorts of stomachs, political as well as physical. – R. M. Walsh
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, – that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. – John Jay Chapman
Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not – Oscar Wilde
The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example – Mark Twain
It is never too late to reform, as long as you have the sense to desire it, and the strength to execute your purpose. – Anne bronte
The only reason to give a speech is to change the world. – John F. Kennedy
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. – Walter Lippmann
We talk much of reform, meaning thereby a change of mud in our mud-bath. – Abraham Miller
Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world. – John lancaster spalding
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform. – Susan B. Anthony
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed. – Ben Elton
He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots – Johann Kaspar Lavater
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