Top 68 Self Reform Quotes

#1. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is unrelenting in seeking to convert every area of our hearts and lives. The Gospel is all-encompassing. It is in fact the only source of godliness. Search anywhere else, and you have nothing more than self-reform at best and idolatry at its worst.

Barbara Hughes

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#2. Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

Ramana Maharshi

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#3. Self-reform is the only kind that works.

Mason Cooley

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#4. In the suburban Midwestern Reform Jewish world I was raised in, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, grown men built plastic scale models of Israeli tanks and F-15 jets and displayed them throughout the house, dangling the warplanes from bedroom ceilings with fishing line.

Rick Perlstein

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#5. With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.

Kumi Naidoo

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#6. Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.

Newt Gingrich

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#7. Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

William Hague

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#8. To discard what is unwanted, and to retain what is needed, is what reform means.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

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#9. Any reform of that fundamental nature, potentially constitutional, it has to go to the people. It has to be a be a referendum, and that's why it was a plebiscite in all of the provinces in which it's been attempted.

Rona Ambrose

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#10. We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

Kent Conrad

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#11. I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.

Tariq Ramadan

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#12. To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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#13. America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

Hank Johnson

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#14. The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and black progress, without being exposed to the charge of racism.

Michelle Alexander

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#15. What blurt is this about virtue and about vice?
Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent,
My gait is no fault-finder's or rejecter's gait,
I moisten the roots of all that has grown.

Walt Whitman

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#16. The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

George Santayana

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#17. The American people ... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

Rahm Emanuel

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#18. Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

Andy Hargreaves

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#19. I'm very proud to have joined with conservatives in both the Senate and the House to reform how we target bad guys.

Ted Cruz

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#20. Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

Diane Ravitch

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#21. First know the Self and then talk of social reformation.

Abhijit Naskar

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#22. Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

James Surowiecki

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#23. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires ...

Elizabeth Hardwick

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#24. Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

James L. Buckley

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#25. Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

Ramana Maharshi

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#26. 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 outside of itself than in itself.

J.G. Holland

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#27. The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#28. Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.

W.E.B. Du Bois

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#29. 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

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

Ignatius Of Loyola

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#31. We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.

Warren Christopher

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#32. Behind every humorist who delights in knifing hypocrites is a major self-critic.

Wendy Aron

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#33. For me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.

Vivian Gornick

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#34. Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.

Tony Judt

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#35. Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

Rebecca Goldstein

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#36. (Dune's Frank) Herbert made religion the inescapable instrument of cultural change.

Joseph Bottum

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#37. We should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

Nikola Tesla

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#38. Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.

Jay Alan Sekulow

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#39. We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.

Luis Gutierrez

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#40. Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform, Democrats ridiculed and demonized him and told seniors he was after their nest eggs.

David Limbaugh

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#41. Over on the Democratic side, Martin O'Malley recently spoke about the need for Wall Street reform and said that he isn't running for president to be quote, 'wined and dined' by executives. Then Chris Christie said, 'And I am also not running to be wined.'

Jimmy Fallon

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#42. Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#43. I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.

Deb Fischer

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#44. If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.

Steven Pinker

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#45. My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

David Eagleman

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#46. The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.

John Linder

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#47. Actually, I'm a strong supporter of comprehensive tax reform.

John S. Watson

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#48. Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

Bonnell Thornton

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#49. We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money.

Carly Fiorina

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#50. Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

Voltaire

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#51. You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to pull off any reform school prank worth the effort.

Lauren Kate

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#52. You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

Ralph Steadman

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#53. An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

Don Marquis

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#54. Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin

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#55. We must restore faith in politics. Reform of the House of Lords is only one part of the answer, but it is a vital one.

Charles Kennedy

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#56. I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

Darrell Issa

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#57. The message I would say to China is, 'Carry on with the reform; carry on with the change you are making.'

George Osborne

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#58. Even in 1831 Lowick was at peace, not more agitated by Reform than by the solemn tenor of the Sunday sermon. The

George Eliot

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#59. Do we have to shed blood to reform the current system? I hope it doesn't come to that! But it might.

Timothy McVeigh

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#60. There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it.

Mike Quigley

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#61. I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

Ismail Haniyeh

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#62. The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

Robert Peel

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#63. I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.

Bruce Rauner

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#64. Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government.

Grover Norquist

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#65. The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

Earl Browder

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#66. You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

George H. W. Bush

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#67. I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

John Garamendi

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#68. Thinking Reports enable the prisoners to wash their brains, and become new!" he announced cheerfully. "Washing the brain is very important to your reform, and improving your real situation.

Dominic Stevenson

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