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Reform Quotes


These are some of the best 'Reform' quotations and sayings.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't. See quote detail
Change is not reform. See quote detail
Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.
He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little farther, and try to plant a virtue in its place, otherwise he will have his labor to renew; a strong soil that has produced weeds, may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.
He who reforms himself, has done more toward reforming the public, that a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.
It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.
It is well known what strange work there has been in the world, under the name and pretence of reformation; how often it has turned out to be, in reality, deformation; or, at best, a tinkering sort of business, where, while one hole has been mended, two have been made.
Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
Many hope the tree may be felled that they may gather chips by the fall.
Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety the rich.
One vicious habit each year rooted out, in time might make the worst man good.
Reforms should begin at home and stay there.
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
The true reformer will not only hate evil, but will earnestly endeavor to fill its place with good.
There is a boldness, a spirit of daring, in religious reformers, not to be measured by the general rules which control men's purposes and actions.
They say best men are moulded out of faults, and, for the most, become much more the better for being a little bad!
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.
When error is confuted, vice reproved, and hypocrisy exposed, some are sure to complain of uncourteousness, uncharitableness, and an unchristian spirit. Such men would have been loud in their complaints, and bitter in their censure, of the prophets and apostles, and would have doubted the personal piety, and ultimate salvation, of Luther, and Knox, and Whitefield.