Status Quo Quotes - Page 2

• the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  204 Copy quote

• It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

  Gerry Adams

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Battle, Challenging The Status Quo

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• The status quo sucks.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Humor

  8 Copy quote

• It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

  Seth Godin

  Mediocrity, Settling, Uncomfortable

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.55, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

  Seth Godin

  Challenges, Mediocrity, Uncomfortable

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.55, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Life, Change, Believe

  7 Copy quote

• Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Ideas, Challenges

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.19, Beacon Press

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

  Karl Barth

  God, Challenging The Status Quo, Revelations

  "An Almanac of the Christian Church". Book by William D. Blake, 1987.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

  Clark Kerr

  Idaho, Solutions

  Clark Kerr (2001). “The Uses of the University”, p.134, Harvard University Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Hard Work, Men, Ideas

  13 Copy quote

• I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Challenging The Status Quo, Want

  39 Copy quote
• 

  The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

  Seth Godin

  Jobs, Positivity

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.5, Penguin

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Leader

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.210, John Wiley & Sons

  90 Copy quote

  Show source

• Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

  Gloria Steinem

  War, Dirty, Army

  Ms., Spring 1972

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

  Walter Isaacson

  Change, Success, Meaningful

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

  John Lennon

  Political, Religion, Knows

  "John Lennon's lost six-hour interview" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

  Harold Pinter

  Government, League, Challenging The Status Quo

  7 Copy quote

• Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Ignorance, Self, Able

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.89, ReadHowYouWant.com

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in.

  Jack Graham

  Latin, Mess

  8 Copy quote

• I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

  Sheldon Adelson

  Long, Looks, Challenging The Status Quo

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

  David Rockefeller

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Innovation, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Political, Social Activism

  Methodist Student Leadership Conference Address, delivered 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska

  48 Copy quote

  Show source

• No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Sheep, Revolution, Browsing

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.

  Gloria Steinem

  Grateful, Long, Too Much

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.265, Open Road Media

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo.

  Jennifer James

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source