Cords Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

— Anonymous

His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not…

— Bridget Riley

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have…

— Thomas Adams

“...No reformer is worthy of the name if he fails to be the ultimate pacesetter in his own reform drive...”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.

— Mark Cane

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

— Baruch Spinoza

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

— Walter Lippmann

“And then what happens to the reformer, lover? He either has to build up a political machine or else he’s defeated at the next…

— Erle Stanley Gardner

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“They move on to fix problems without getting at their root causes, which is a recipe for continued failure.”

— Ray Dalio