Reform Quotes

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

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

Oliver Goldsmith

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

William Ewart Gladstone

Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.

Proverb

Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.

Proverb

Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.

Proverb

Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.

Proverb

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

Sydney Smith

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves

George Bernard Shaw

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Louisa May Alcott

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.

Eugene Delacroix

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 Theresa

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Thomas Carlyle

With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Oscar Wilde

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

Moli

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Edward W. Howe

The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.

Aldous Huxley