Reform is about finding solutions, not placing blame.
True reform comes from a willingness to listen, learn, and make necessary changes.
Reform is not about tearing down, it’s about building up, creating something better for everyone.
People who have reformed themselves have contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
– Norman Douglas
Reforms are not about the past, they are about the future we want to create.
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
– Theodore Roosevelt
Change is not always easy, but reform is necessary for progress and growth.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
– Elizabeth Fry
Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
– Robert Ingersoll
War is cruelty. There’s no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
Reform is not just about changing laws, it’s about changing mindsets and attitudes.
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
– Thomas Jefferson
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
– Alexander Herzen
Everybody has gone through something that has changed them in a way that they could never go back to the person they once were.
– Leonardo DiCaprio
It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and mortal persecution
– Mahatma Gandhi
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
– Howard Zinn
To discard what is unwanted, and to retain what is needed, is what reform means.
– Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Reforms are the foundation of progress, without them, we would be stuck in the past.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
– Mark Twain
To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty-to the poor and humble.
– Lew Wallace
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can’t.
– Clarence Darrow
Reform is not an idea we implement; rather reform is something produced by the interactions between groups, which comes to have meaning through interpretations of social institutions.
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
– Thomas Brackett Reed
You do not reform a world by ignoring it.
– George Bush
The greatest reformation should be among those who have been the greatest sinners.
– Joseph Addison
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
Fear not to reform.
– Confucius
Reforms are not just words on a page, they are actions that lead to real change.
Reform is not an event, it is a process. We will continue to push forward the cause of reform.
– Manmohan Singh
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.
– Derrick A. Bell
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
– Thomas Carlyle
The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life
– Oscar Wilde
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity makes you realize that you are weak & must reform.
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves
– George Bernard Shaw
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
– Victor Hugo
All reformers are bachelors.
– George A. Moore
Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.
– Rebecca Harding Davis
A reformer is a man who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.
– James J. Walker
I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
– Edward W. Howe
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
– B. R. Ambedkar
Reform lets in light through the dark curtain of ignorance and superstition.
– H. S. Jacobs
My desolation does begin to make A better life.
– William Shakespeare
A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
– Mort Sahl
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
– Oscar Wilde
Whatever you dislike in another person, take care to reform in yourself.
– Thomas Spratt
Public reformers had need first practice on their own hearts that which they propose to try on others.
– King Charles I
All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.
– William Cowper
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
Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
– Voltaire
The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.
– John F. Kennedy
If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.
– Mother Teresa
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
– Lydia Maria Child
The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve
– Thomas Babington Macaulay
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
– Walter Lippmann
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.
– John lancaster spalding
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
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him
– Elbert Hubbard
All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.
– Bryant McGill
Neither fire, sword, nor banishment can retard reform, but it rather hastens it forward.
– Jaques Auguste De Thou
Every reform needs examples more than advocates
– Senator John Kerry
Reform is China’s second revolution.
– Deng Xiaoping
My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
– Faye Wattleton
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
– George Santayana
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed.
– Ben Elton
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform.
– Susan B. Anthony
Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not
– Oscar Wilde
We talk much of reform, meaning thereby a change of mud in our mud-bath.
– Abraham Miller
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
He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots
– Johann Kaspar Lavater