Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

We didn’t make it perfect, but we did change the world.

As the world changes, the way we work changes with it.

How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.

In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

Now is our time to change the world

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.

A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.

. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.

If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved.

Times change and we should change and grow, and yet be proud of our legacy.

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning.

I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

I was put in this world to change it.

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.