Adaptability Quotes
Enjoy this collection of short inspirational adaptability quotes. We hope these brief adaptability quotes give you food for thought. Our ability to adapt to situations is a step towards success. Adapting to changes in our lives sometimes can be easy and at other tiimes can be difficult, but when you do it, it is usually good."When we allow ourselves to adapt to different situations,
life is easier."
Catherine Pulsifer
"Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure,
but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you."
William Frederick Book
"The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings."
K. Okakaura
"Adaptability is not imitation.
It means power of resistance and assimilation."
Mahatma Gandhi
"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous."
Jane Heard
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.
Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.
All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
George Bernard Shaw
"To adapt, is to move ahead."
Byron Pulsifer
"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
"The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher."
Chinese Proverbs
More concise quotes on adaptability: "If they lacked flexibility they wouldn't be able to adapt to different situations and come out winning. When you're flexible, you're willing to consider the best approach for each particular situation."
Wendy Hearn
"To the man who only has a hammer,
everything he encounters begins to look like a nail."
Abraham H. Maslow
"The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision,
the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas."
Thomas Sowell
"A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it."
Author Unknown
"I love country life, the peacefulness, the changing of the seasons, all things I never noticed in the city. And, as far as the conveniences, you adapt….rather than eating out often, home cooking provides wholesome meals."
Catherine Pulsifer, from 30 Months Later, Questions Answered.......
"Change is inevitable . . . adapting to change is unavoidable,
it's how you do it that sets you together or apart."
William Ngwako Maphoto
"We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances."
W. R. Inge
"I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt."
William Feather
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Mahatma Gandhi
"I found out that if you are going to win games,
you had better be ready to adapt."
Scotty Bowman
"There are always changes in life. No matter who you are, it is inevitable. Changes are as constant as the wind; they are never ending and varied. The most important aspect, however, is how we adapt to those changes even if we don't want them."
Byron Pulsifer, from Ideal Environment Means Adaptation
"We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
Clarence Day
"You help others accept and adapt to change.
Communicating the postives of the change will help people overcome their resistance."
Byron & Catherine Pusifer
"During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value."
Peter F. Drucker