- “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
- “The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.” – Chinese Proverb
- “I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” – Georg C. Litchenberg
- “Nobody likes to change. There will always be resistance to change, and there always will be change. And the quicker you get to that, the easier it is. It’s not such a difficult thing. If you entrench yourself and go, ‘By God, I will not change, I will not have this.’ Then, you’re a dead man. We’re great at adaptability. It’s our strongest suit.” – Nick Nolte
- “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy
- “Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “And the most successful people are those who accept, and adapt to constant change. This adaptability requires a degree of flexibility and humility most people can’t manage.” – Paul Lutus
- “Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.” – Nolan Ryan
- “Action and adaptability create opportunity.” – Garrison Wynn
- “When we allow ourselves to adapt to different situations, life is easier.” – Catherine Pulsifer
- “But in practice master plans fail – because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.” – Christopher Alexander
- “Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.” – Jessica Hagedorn
- “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” – H. G. Wells
- “If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.” – Jeff Bezos
- “There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. It’s the end you’re after.” – Anthony Robbins
- “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking
- “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.” – Bruce Lee
- “We first make our habits, then our habits make us.” – John Dryden
- “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Jelaluddin Rumi
- “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
- “You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.” – Jean M. Auel
- “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, maybe the very reason why you don’t have something better.” – C. JoyBell C.
- “Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.” – Seth Godin
- “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” – Anatole Franc
- “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.” – Paulo Coelho
- “We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” – Dolly Parton
- “When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” – Tuli Kupferberg
- “Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch
- “The strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.” – Alice Duer Miller
- “You can’t just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.” – Sam Walton
- “Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.” – Joan Wallach Scott
- “When something goes wrong in your life, just yell ‘Plot Twist’ and move on.” – Anonymous
- “Of course there is no formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.” – Arthur Rubinstein
- “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
- “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.” – Anatole France
- “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu
