Reform Quote by John Lancaster Spalding Download Open image “Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.” — John Lancaster Spalding ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Reform Thyself World
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first. — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Before we can change the world around us God wants to change the world inside us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our policies have… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
Many of us believe that we need health care reform. That being said - Americans felt like they weren't being listened to. There were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
“All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, — all except… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Postal service of today is far removed from that of 30 years ago when reform was last enacted. — John M. McHugh Copy Share Image