Adaptability Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old adaptability quotes, adaptability sayings, and adaptability proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability. Charles Darwin
The key to success is often the ability to adapt. Anthony Brandt
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. Bruce Lee
Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life. Benjamin Franklin
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain. Vivian Greene
It is not balance you need but adaptability. Erwin Raphael McManus
Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment. Marvin J. Ashton
We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances. William Ralph Inge
Action and adaptability create opportunity. Garrison Wynn
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw
Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable, and things can change overnight for any of us. Chanda Kochhar
The more you adapt, the more interesting you are. Martha Stewart
Be flexible and adapt easily to new things. Sunday Adelaja
Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time. John Wooden
The strongest will is the will that knows how to bend. Alice Duer Miller
Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education. Peter Hilton
To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could. Louis L'Amour
It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. Charles Darwin
Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Octavia E. Butler
Forgive, Adapt and Evolve, because holding on stagnates your opportunity of being better. Sachin Kumar Puli
You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve. Marc Benioff
Adaptability is the simple secret of survival. Jessica Hagedorn
One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives. Louis L'Amour
Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst. Jose Ortega Y Gasset
As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills. Alain Dehaze
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. Okakura Kakuzō
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. Albert Einstein
Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win. Max McKeown
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
Be willing to change, because life won't stay the same. unknown
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. Mahatma Gandhi
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. Dolly Parton
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Nolan Ryan
It is a wise person that adapts themselves to all contingencies; it's the fool who always struggles like a swimmer against the current. Anomymous
The most amazing thing about little children was their fantastic adaptability. Kristin Hunter
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. Alexander Hamilton
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller
A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well. Frederick Douglass
Things good in themselves perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter. Freya Stark
In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom. Gautama Buddha
Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
When you can’t change the direction of the wind adjust your sails H. Jackson Brown
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. Henry Miller
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
Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. JFK
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Jiddu Krishnamurti
A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability. John Dewey
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create. John Galsworthy
It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. Leon C. Megginson
As we shall see, the tractable apostrophe has always done its proper jobs in our language with enthusiasm and elegance, but it has never been taken seriously enough its talent for adaptability has been cruelly taken for granted and now, in an age of supreme graphic frivolity, we pay the price. Lynne Truss
All failure is the failure to adapt all success is successful adaptation. Max McKeown
Adaptability and constant innovation is key to the survival of any company operating in a competitive market. Shiv Nadar
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
Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the-street. William Shockley
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive. Yann Martel