Susan B. Anthony Quotes

Nothing is more certain than that improvement in human affairs is wholly the work of the uncontented characters.

I am a friend to the reformation generally of whatever can be made better

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

There is this constant effort to progress in America, to make things better for everyone.

Don't be content with things as they are.

We don’t need to wait three generations for change.

Reform starts here.

I have always believed in discontent – not grumbling, which is usually selfish and individual – but a disinclination to sit down idly, knowing things are wrong.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

If you want change, and you want things to get better across the country, there's different ways to go about it.

We are not starting a revolution. We are starting an evolution of change.