Top 100 Change Opportunity Quotes
#1. Whenever I see an opportunity and a chance to change something, I go at it and I lay out all the facts to everybody. And when I come to this space, I'm going to come with talent, I'm going to come with focus. And I'm going to do the job as competitively as the next guy.
Robert Johnson
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
Archimedes
#5. Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
Naveen Jain
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. How to "change the world" in two words: S.T.A.R.T. N.O.W.
1. START - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.
2. NOW - No Opportunity Wasted
Richie Norton
#9. When you see an opportunity to change the world, get up and get the job done!
Robin Sharma
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Every day, all of us at Gannett are given the rare and sacred opportunity to affect change for the good in the communities we serve, to make life better for the people who trust us to know them and do right by them.
Gracia Martore
#13. 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
#14. The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
Arthur Scargill
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.
Nido Qubein
#18. Never give up your wife, husband, children and families.
Believe that people can change.
Give others opportunity to change.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#19. Opportunities change, strategies change, but people and psychology do not change. If trend-following systems don't work well, something else will. There's always money being lost, so someone out there has to win.
Gil Blake
#20. Systematic change requires a willingness to look on change as an opportunity.
Peter Drucker
#21. When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!
Kirsten Gillibrand
#22. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." Harry S. Truman
Shar McBee
#23. 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
#24. This day is the most recent set of events to define you.
Every day changes your life. Every last one.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#25. Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the world. I believe that people will move to online learning, both on campuses and worldwide. We have a real opportunity to be able to bring people around the world into our fold.
Anant Agarwal
#26. Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
Dolores Huerta
#27. There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
William Shakespeare
#28. You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
Ann Brashares
#29. Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.
Rajendra K. Pachauri
#30. 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
#31. I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change ... no longer than a decade, at the most.
James Hansen
#32. At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.
Elizabeth Holmes
#33. Being born-again Christian gives God the opportunity to gradually change your heart, mind, and thoughts
Sunday Adelaja
#34. When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#35. Trapped in a continuum of your own making. Awareness is the key that unlocks your opportunity for change.
Truth Devour
#36. Everyday is a new opportunity to change your life and be who you want to be.
Demi Lovato
#37. Making it happen, It's just something you gotta do.
Auliq Ice
#38. Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.
Tony Robbins
#39. Remember that things can still be changed and that it is not too late
Sunday Adelaja
#40. 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
#41. To be able to look at change as an opportunity to grow - that is the secret to being happy.
Joan Lunden
#42. We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.
Bob Riley
#43. 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
#44. Harvard Law provided an opportunity to learn from a faculty that had shaped the laws of our country and helped to change the world around us. It also offered an opportunity to study with the brightest students and to test myself against the best.
Kenneth Chenault
#45. When you succeed in life, You cannot be sure till you reach at the point you expect.
Auliq Ice
#46. This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Peter F. Drucker
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. Because change creates opportunity, when we do it through purpose and awareness, we are working with the fates, and in turn they smile upon us.
Lawren Leo
#51. 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
#52. We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today, climate change, into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future
Ban Ki-moon
#53. If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power.
Louise Hay
#54. 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
#55. Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
Paul Klee
#56. 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
#57. It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
Sal Albanese
#58. When there's change, there's opportunity.
Jack Welch
#59. 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
#60. Angels love to create synchronicities because each synchronicity produces an illumination point for a soul to connect the dots on life experiences. This insight, in turn, creates an opportunity to expand the heart and grow the soul, which always results in positive change for humanity.
Molly Friedenfeld
#61. KAIROS A unique time in a person's life; an opportunity for change.
May Sarton
#62. A horse that has made a positive change in his behavior needs an opportunity to 'soak', to concentrate on & digest what he has learned. He needs his quiet time. Given this opportunity, his response will be better the next time you work with him.
Buck Brannaman
#63. The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities ...
Steve Case
#64. 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
#65. There's so much there to cultivate an opportunity to change the mindset of how players think, in terms of not lending their power over to just anyone. I've been a victim of that, and it's difficult to rebound from.
Eddie George
#66. No company has a permanent consumer franchise. No one has the only game in town. The never-ending cycle of destruction and change inherent in a capitalist economy always provides new opportunities for those with determination, goals and concentration.
Harvey MacKay
#67. These are the days in which a true leader wants to live. These are days when opportunities to change lives and even destinies are nearly endless. You are running the anchor leg of the relay because you were born to lead. You were born for glory.
Sheri L. Dew
#68. Each day is a new opportunity to make ourselves better. Don't wait for things to change, become the change.
Karen S. Shelton
#69. I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.
Naomi Klein
#70. It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.
Mark Kostabi
#71. Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
Seth Godin
#72. Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.
Rodolfo Costa
#73. Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.
Dan Miller
#75. Change is not a force to be feared, but an opportunity to be seized.
Sam Weiss
#76. Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.
Francis Collins
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity!
Mark Cuban
#81. Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change ... agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.
Jim Highsmith
#82. For some, times of change can be trying. But these times can also present great opportunity, a chance for us to show what we're made of, to show our dignity and fortitude. A chance for us to grow.
Kimberly Derting
#83. We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule ... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
#84. 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
#85. In madness lies change, in change is opportunity, and in opportunity are riches.
Bernard Cornwell
#86. Every time we speak to people, we have the opportunity to change their lives forever, if only we could find the perfect combination of words.
Kalin Ringkvist
#87. It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.
Arthur H. Vandenberg
#88. 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
#89. Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.
Auliq Ice
#90. Change is an opportunity to grow. Change is not an adversity to fear.
Debasish Mridha
#91. If you live your life in fear and had the opportunity to change. . .could you muster the strength?
P.C. Chinick
#92. It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.
John H. Johnson
#93. 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
#94. Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.
Steve Backley
#95. I'm driven. I have the opportunity to change people's lives.
Thomas Menino
#96. 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
#97. The climate challenge illustrates how we have to change. The developing countries need more support and opportunities to develop and use clean energy. Because if the current situation continues, then the world will not be able to handle this burden.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
#98. Author says change emphasizes what is happening TO us while transition emphasizes opportunity for growth within.
William Bridges
#99. For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.
James D. Watson
#100. Every single one of us has the unique opportunity to create awareness and influence change
Gretchen Bleiler
