Status Quo Quotes

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us.

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion

The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.

Don't hang out with people who are:UngratefulUnhelpfulUnrulyUnkindlyUnlovingUnambitiousUnmotivatedor make you feel...Uncomfortable

The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point

Your position may be highly powerful, but you will be a hero only when you are highly respected.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering, ” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

Instead of courage' management guru Tom Peters recommends fostering 'a level of fury with the status quo such that one cannot not act.

The world is not static and the status quo is not sacred.

Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo?I didn't.

An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.

Now even reformers needed political machines.

Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.

There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

If I always stuck up for what I had, I would have missed the most amazing things I have today. What are you fighting for that you need to let go? Release the magic within. The magic of what could be.

I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the juxtaposition has obvious consequences. Rolf Mowatt-Larrsen

Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It's about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.

Often I didn’t think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself.

All genuinely creative ideas are initially met with rejection, since they necessarily threaten the status quo. An enthusiastic reception for a new idea is a sure sign that it is not original.

Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.

You know that you’re truly successful when you can afford to fail.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

I am a great warrior.

Break away from the box confining you. Positive dreamers do not follow the status quo. They keep raising the standard of the bar higher and higher. Raise the bar.

Some people are busy working on their pose instead of their purpose.

Take the challenge of your life.Reach out to your goals.There is no limit to what you can achieve.

Established churches not infrequently formed an alliance with the aristocracy, joining arm in arm against change.

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn’t see it. He can’t. He’s average. And is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.

Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.

One world leader warned another "the error of relying on the capability you have rather than developing the capability you need.

Americans have a tendency to take much of our long-term economic, technological, medical, and social progress for granted, while assuming problems will only get worse. This is unwarranted.

The inquisitive nature of youth should carry over into our adult lives. Challenging the status quo and enticing curiosity should be a daily practice of adult life.

Prejudice doesn't allow one to accept another at a higher level. However their values or views might be respected.

Law is not as disinterested as our concepts of law pretend

Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity.

You can have anything you want in life, you must be willing to conquer the challenge.

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.