top of page
Quote_1.png
Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past, and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."

Standard 
 Customized
"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past, and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."

Exlpore more Change quotes

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"You can change a life by touching someone with simple, beautiful, kind, words and a loving smile."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"We have to change our thoughts before things can change."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"You may turn every house in your neighborhood into a charity center, you may fill the land with soup-kitchens, but the misery of humans will still continue to exist until the character of humanity changes."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Every living object has to change every moment just to live."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"If you don't like the solution, change the problem."

Explore more quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Quote_1.png
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."
Quote_1.png
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."
Quote_1.png
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."
Quote_1.png
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."
Quote_1.png
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt, they are forbidden to believe."
Quote_1.png
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
Quote_1.png
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there. And that is becoming more and more the situation...Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion."
Quote_1.png
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into the stocking. Now I am delighted and astonished every morning to find a present so big that it takes two stockings to hold it, and then leaves a great deal outside; it is the large and preposterous present of myself."
Quote_1.png
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The books that influence the world are those that it has not read."
Quote_1.png
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
bottom of page