Top 100 Adaptability Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ”

— Stephen Hawking

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Change Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Science Quotes

2. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Famous Quotes, Inspiring Quotes

3. “If you don’t like how things are, change it. You are not a tree. ”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Action Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Mindset Quotes

4. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

— Alvin Toffler

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Education Quotes, Learning Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Study Quotes

5. “You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Change Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

6. “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Transformation Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Knowledge Quotes

7. “All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.”

— Max McKeown

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes

8. “Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Motivational Quotes About Life, Resilience Quotes

9. “Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time.”

— John Wooden

10. “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.”

— H. G. Wells

Also featured in: Survival Quotes

11. “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Wise Quotes

12. “No business plan survives first contact with customers.”

— Steve Blank

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Lean Methodology Quotes

13. “Change before you have to.”

— Jack Welch

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Change Quotes, Transformation Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes

14. “When you are finished changing, you're finished.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Growth Mindset Quotes

15. “Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Spirituality Quotes

16. “If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.”

— Jeff Bezos

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Motivational Quotes for Success, Strategy Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work

17. “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”

— Peter F. Drucker

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Business Quotes, Change Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Business Quotes

18. “Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.”

— Bill Gates

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Growth Quotes

19. “Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

20. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”

— Heraclitus

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Transformation Quotes, Deep Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

21. “If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan.”

— Claire Cook

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Choices Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Not Giving Up Quotes

22. “In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

— Eric Hoffer

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Clever Quotes

23. “To change is difficult. Not to change is fatal.”

— William Pollard

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes

24. “Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity!”

— Mark Cuban

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Transformation Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

25. “Nothing negatively impacts organisation performance quicker than an employee who resists change and who believes that the way they work today is the way they will work tomorrow.”

— Peter F Gallagher

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Performance Quotes, Resistance Quotes, Quotes About Work

26. “Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.”

— Tom Peters

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Efficiency Quotes

27. “For the world has changed, and we must change with it.”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Progress Quotes, Quotes About the World

28. “You adapt, evolve, compete or die.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Hustle Quotes, Competition Quotes, Survival Quotes

29. “In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.”

— Warren G. Bennis

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Transformation Quotes, Positive Work Quotes, Progress Quotes

30. “Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”

— Confucius

31. “There are two options: adapt or die.”

— Andy Grove

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Competition Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes, Survival Quotes

32. “Life happens. Adapt. Embrace change, and make the most of everything that comes your way.”

— Nick Jonas

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Short Positive Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

33. “She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Motivational Quotes for Women, Not Giving Up Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

34. “Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Positive Motivation Quotes, Preparation Quotes

35. “Life comes at us in waves. We can’t predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf.”

— Dan Millman

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Positive Motivation Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes, Positive Energy Quotes

36. “If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Moving Forward Quotes

37. “The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Exercise Quotes

38. “Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.”

— Henry Ford

Also featured in: Efficiency Quotes

39. “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.”

— Octavia Butler

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Different Quotes

40. “I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”

— John D. Rockefeller

41. “A true champion can adapt to anything.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Also featured in: Fighting Quotes

42. “Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.”

— William Pollard

43. “Stagnation is death. If you don’t change, you die. It’s that simple. It’s that scary.”

— Leonard Sweet

44. “Disruption creates more choice and opportunities for agency. Maintaining relevance then requires constant redefinition, reframing, ideating, prototyping, and testing of our choices.”

— Roger Spitz

45. “In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.”

— Brian Tracy

46. “Life is not what it’s supposed to be. It’s what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.”

— Virginia Satir

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Life is Hard Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Resilience Quotes

47. “Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Warrior Quotes, Quotes About War

48. “Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.”

— Seth Godin

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Professional Growth Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes, Mistake Quotes

49. “You cannot grow unless you are willing to change. You will never improve yourself if you cling to what used to be.”

— Leon Brown

Also featured in: New Beginnings Quotes, Growth Mindset Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes

50. “Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.”

— Jack Welch

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Truth Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Boss Quotes