143 Quotes About Status-quo

Insiders who question the status quo get pushed out, but outsiders are the ones who change the status quo.Ever notice that many startup founders that disrupt industries are outsiders to their industry?

As women pull back the veil and begin to examine, push up against, and reject the status quo, patriarchy and all its many playersare pre-programmed to shut us down in order to protect the way it’s always been. This is one of the many reasons it’s so important to cultivate strong, healthy, empowering connections with other awakeningwomen. We’re stronger together and can support one another in timesof messy change and tender growth.

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

Their devotion had never been put to any serious test, and might not have withstood one; their love for God was based in their satisfaction with the status quo.

Now even reformers needed political machines.

You ultimately decide, every day, whether or not your life will speak on behalf of the oppressed, or remain an inaudible but decisive tool for the status quo.

Excellence is to keep beating your own standards every day. If you don't have a standard for yourself, you have no records to beat; and if you don't have any record to beat, you can't excel. What is your current standard?

I yawned awake ready to blow stuff up like a 90s action-star. I’d become what I despised, a misguided schmuck following the status-quo for the sole purpose of fitting in. Whatever... gunrunners, terrorists, bankers, dictators, goons; we all have it coming.

My teeth are status quo and powerful, also known as white and straight...