Barack Obama Quotes

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

Nobody wants to change.

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.

We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived.

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

You can change the world. Please don't do that, OK? Some of us like the way things are going now.

Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.

There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

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

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.