Quotes about Change

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.

It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally, but of working wonders in a man's disposition.

Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to anther.

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.

New roads; new ruts.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Reforms should begin at home and stay there.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.