Top 100 Change Is Opportunity Quotes
#1. For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.
Nido Qubein
#2. Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#3. In madness lies change, in change is opportunity, and in opportunity are riches.
Bernard Cornwell
#4. Without good-will, no man has any presumptive right, except the right or opportunity to change his will, so long as there is hope of it.
William Ernest Hocking
#5. Our answer, our opportunity, our chance to change the world has to come from the poetry that is already written on the walls of the soul.
Michael Meade
#6. Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.
Jack Welch
#7. To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.
Mooji
#8. Change management is kind of a weird concept to me. We can' t control events any more than we can control the weather. But we control how we deal with it and we can control the opportunities that these moments of change create.
Kevin Allen
#9. The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.
David Miliband
#10. Just ticking boxes is not the ultimate goal here. Embracing a culture of teamwork and discipline is. And if we recognised the opportunity, the two-minute WHO checklist is just a start.
Atul Gawande
#11. When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.
Chip Conley
#12. It is every Muslim's duty to fight those of a different belief until only Allah is worshipped around the world. Everybody has the opportunity to accept Allah and to change to the right path.
Abdul Sattar Abu Risha
#13. Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.
Seth Godin
#14. Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.
Robert Breault
#15. Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsey Clark
#16. Because you never know where life is gonna take you, And you can't change where you've been, But today, I have the opportunity to choose ...
India.Arie
#17. I got into acting for the chance to be many different people and many different characters. I love hiding in a role and doing the research. If there is an opportunity to change my body, I will change my body. I'll slip in and disguise myself in a role. That is a really big treat for me.
Ashley Bell
#18. Ludlow put a hand on his arm. A friend of mine used to say, 'You cannot change the past, but every moment is an opportunity to change your future.
F.E. Higgins
#19. The best change that comes to the world is when all parties are seeing each other as equal, and all parties have the opportunity to be transformed. That really goes back to the idea of dignity.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#20. It turns out it takes 30 years for a new idea to seep into the culture. Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change.
Paul Saffo
#21. And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and organized search for changes, and in the systematic analysis of the opportunities such changes might offer for economic or social innovation.
Peter F. Drucker
#22. Judgement is not punishment, judgment is verdict. Judgement always gives an opportunity for life to change.
Tahira Amir Khan
#23. Politicians in Europe want change. The United States and China will follow this trend. One could see this is a threat, but it's also an opportunity. We at BMW want to take advantage of this and, through innovations, place ourselves at the forefront.
Norbert Reithofer
#24. Tell me why one is the best."
"One is enough. It's unique. It's a chance, an opportunity, an experience. One is never greedy. One is independent. One can change everything.
Jewel E. Ann
#25. The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life.
Jim Rohn
#26. So my judgment is that Syria will move; Syria will change, as it embraces a legitimate relationship with the United States and the West and economic opportunity that comes with it and the participation that comes with it.
John F. Kerry
#27. Life and business is like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Therein lies the opportunity to live an extraordinary life, the opportunity to change yourself.
Jim Rohn
#28. Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.
Robert Scoble
#29. Perspective is a powerful attitude, providing the ability to see circumstances, no matter how challenging, as an opportunity.
Chris Vonada
#30. Trapped in a continuum of your own making. Awareness is the key that unlocks your opportunity for change.
Truth Devour
#31. Everyday is a new opportunity to change your life and be who you want to be.
Demi Lovato
#32. The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.
Jeff Jarvis
#33. Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. Truman
#34. One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.
Anthony Rizzo
#35. Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
Dolores Huerta
#36. Light and flow is what shifts the world's vibration, not the stagnation and resistance that comes with opposition.
Alaric Hutchinson
#37. Is there a behavior you would like to make into a habit? Then reinforce it by repeating that behavior at every opportunity. Is there a behavior you wish to change? Then substitute another one and repeat the new one often. In this way you build the kind of life you want ... day by day.
Steve Goodier
#38. To be able to look at change as an opportunity to grow - that is the secret to being happy.
Joan Lunden
#39. The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state
this is a rainbow state.
Jesse Jackson
#40. Change is not a one-time explosion of opportunity. It is a slow burning fire that needs to be tended constantly.
Jason Harvey
#41. Learn to adapt. Things change, circumstances change. Adjust yourself and your efforts to what it is presented to you so you can respond accordingly. Never see change as a threat, because it can be an opportunity to learn, to grow, evolve and become a better person.
Rodolfo Costa
#42. The online shopping paradigm is finally changing. Indeed, I think we've seen more innovation in the last 10 months than in the last 10 years. We've seen an explosion of interesting technologies and opportunities that seek to change online shopping.
Josh Kopelman
#43. The important task of government, you see, is to keep conditions stable, to hold down disturbances and unrest, to maintain itself, and the best way to do that is to give everybody the opportunity to do what they want - except change things.
James Edwin Gunn
#44. Right now there is a prime opportunity for all of us to change the rules of the game through e-commerce and shift the balance in favor of entrepreneurs like you. The Internet levels the playing field and gives everyone - be they big or small - a chance.
Jack Ma
#45. Faith causes changes. Anytime there is change, there is opportunity, including the opportunity to fail. But failing can be a step toward completion of a goal. You can fail your way to success.
Paula White
#46. Giving is a universal opportunity. Regardless of your age, profession, religion, income bracket, and background, you have the capacity to create change.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#47. Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life- a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#48. Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.
George Santayana
#49. A strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change. that change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end
Andrew S. Grove
#50. Change is nature's way of offering us the opportunity to explore the parameters of our humanity and potential. Don't fight it, embrace it. There is a magical experience awaiting those who embrace this natural process.
Steve Maraboli
#51. Responding to the challenge of climate change is the ultimate political test for our generation ... Our package not only responds to this challenge, but ... is an opportunity that should create thousands of new businesses and millions of jobs in Europe.
Jose Manuel Barroso
#52. It is not your duty or responsibility to change the minds of other people. The nature of their thinking is advanced or limited by their experience. In your presence, they have an opportunity to learn about you and, perhaps, to grow.
Iyanla Vanzant
#53. Anger is what makes our struggle visible, and our struggle is what exposes they hypocrisy of a nation that fashions itself a moral leader. To rise against the narrative and expose the lie gives opportunity to those whose identity depends on the lie to question and, hopefully, change.
Mychal Denzel Smith
#54. Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.
James E. Faust
#55. It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.
Arthur H. Vandenberg
#56. When one person attempts to "fix it" for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver miss an opportunity for understanding.
David W. Earle
#57. Change is an opportunity to grow. Change is not an adversity to fear.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.
Tobias Wolff
#59. I strongly believe being mayor is the public post in which you have the greatest opportunity to change peoples' lives for the better. People live in cities, not states or nations. As a mayor, you are connected directly to citizens.
Eduardo Paes
#60. As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of war provide the opportunity for transformative change of the kind Bush hoped to achieve. In Iraq, Bush saw his opportunity to create a legacy of greatness.
Scott McClellan
#61. Author says change emphasizes what is happening TO us while transition emphasizes opportunity for growth within.
William Bridges
#62. I do think that we have this incredible opportunity because being on-line - the Internet is a relatively new space - we do have this incredible opportunity to change that dynamic, to make sure that women are present in all sorts of spaces, not just women-only spaces.
Jessica Valenti
#63. Once you accept your circumstances and decide to take action, you can welcome change. Change is an opportunity to form new habits and become who you are meant to be.
Farshad Asl
#64. Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.
Gordon Brown
#65. Flexibility is a learned mental skill. In today's dynamic world, your effectiveness as a professional depends
on your readiness to adjust quickly to the moments of need or opportunity, adversity, and change.
Jennifer Touma
#66. We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.
Ron D. Burton
#67. Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity
Tom DeLay
#68. The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.
Ed Murray
#69. None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
Kathleen Norris
#70. The birth of crisis is a birth of opportunity to change yourself, to rise on the top,to become more powerful and more knowledgeable.
Arya Vidhan
#71. Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.
Natalie Goldberg
#72. Every single second is an opportunity to change your life, because in any moment you can change the way you feel.
Rhonda Byrne
#73. The severity of your problems is a matter of perspective. Change your perspective and most of them become insignificant. Some of them will no longer exist as problems - but opportunities instead.
Ernie J Zelinski
#74. Each day is a new opportunity to make ourselves better. Don't wait for things to change, become the change.
Karen S. Shelton
#75. Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
Seth Godin
#76. Change is not a force to be feared, but an opportunity to be seized.
Sam Weiss
#77. Remember that things can still be changed and that it is not too late
Sunday Adelaja
#79. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera. I can be behind the camera and really change things cinematically, and this is giving me an opportunity to do something behind the camera, which I really want to maximize.
Jamie Foxx
#80. A clear right answer and the opportunity to change the options? This is the chooser's dream.
Sheena Iyengar
#81. Have you considered that maybe this is the birth of a new world, that what happens next is a golden opportunity to change the nature of man in a fundamental way?"
"Those are brave words, Tiresias."
"New parents can't afford to be anything but brave, Eddie.
Joe McKinney
#82. Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.
Chris Prentiss
#83. Where there is a lesson to be learned there is always an opportunity of change to be gained. Change comes by learning, help us Lord Jesus to learn something from every lesson.
Euginia Herlihy
#84. This day is the most recent set of events to define you.
Every day changes your life. Every last one.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#85. Change often brings unimagined opportunity ... If there is no struggle, there is no progress. To live in a safe cocoon- I believe that is not truly living. It is stagnation.
Syrie James
#86. What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.
Jeanne Moreau
#87. Change is your friend not your foe, change is a brilliant opportunity to grow.
Simon T. Bailey
#88. Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
William Pollard
#89. Every moment, every breath, is a new opportunity. An opportunity to let go of the past and to become the person you choose to be.
John Bruna
#90. I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that
Gillian Anderson
#91. This is an opportunity for the port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to climate change, oil spills and other environmental disasters - and reject this short-term lease.
Ed Murray
#92. You're allowed to die at night and be born again with sunrise. Each day is an opportunity to transform. Don't waste this. Protect your right to change, grow, and beam as a star unabashedly should.
Erica Alex
#93. Change is inevitable in life. You can either resist it and potentially get run over by it, or you can choose to cooperate with it, adapt to it, and learn how to benefit from it. When you embrace change you will begin to see it as an opportunity for growth.
Jack Canfield
#94. Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity!
Mark Cuban
#95. The primary opportunity is to use a model or paradigm for describing ADD that's not disease-based and doesn't imply brain damage or what many children interpret as some type of retardation ... a person must have hope; this model restores self-esteem, thus empowering individuals to change.
Thom Hartmann
#96. Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change ... agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.
Jim Highsmith
#97. 'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
Harrison Ford
#98. Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing, addressing risks, searching for opportunities. There is no more vital task
Richard Branson
#99. A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
Bill Owens
#100. It is business that can exercise the fastest degree of change by seeing the opportunity rather than the threat
Chris Huhne