Top 100 Adaptability Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.”

— Bruce Lee

52. “Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.”

— Jessica Hagedorn

53. “Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”

— Gilda Radner

54. “When the facts change, I change my mind.”

— John Maynard Keynes

55. “Life will find a way.”

— Michael Crichton

56. “In today’s fast-changing world, it’s not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn. That skill is priceless.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

57. “I try to avoid long-range plans and visions – that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.”

— Linus Torvalds

58. “There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.”

— Leo Tolstoy

59. “The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.”

— Jeff Bezos

60. “All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.”

— Heraclitus

61. “The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn’t change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.”

— Kent Beck

62. “Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we’ve embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.”

— Richard Branson

63. “Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.”

— Elizabeth Scott

64. “Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.”

— Seth Godin

65. “You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist,...”

— Seth Godin

66. “Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”

— Denis Waitley

67. “Change is inevitable. Why hold onto what you have to let go of?”

— Jhene Aiko

68. “Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.”

— David Ogilvy

69. “Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.”

— Dirk Benedict

70. “When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”

— John Maynard Keynes

71. “The first step on the path to positive change is acknowledgement that change is necessary and possible. Open yourself to the possibility of seeing the world in a new way. What do you have to lose?”

— Alex Blackwell

72. “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

73. “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”

— Eric Shinseki

74. “Change and everything will change for you.”

— Jim Rohn

75. “When change is necessary, not to change is destructive!”

— A. R. Bernard

76. “We have to keep transforming ourselves to stay relevant for the future.”

— Maurice Levy

77. “Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”

— Laozi

78. “Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.”

— Seth Godin

79. “Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.”

— Richard Branson

80. “Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.”

— Warren G. Bennis

81. “Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.”

— Peter F. Drucker

82. “Life is about growing, learning, and becoming. You cannot grow, learn, or become if you cannot embrace the changes in your life.”

— Steve Rizzo

83. “Change before you’re forced to change.”

— Roger Goodell

84. “In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”

— Max De Pree

85. “Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.”

— Alvin Toffler

86. “By changing nothing, nothing changes.”

— Tony Robbins

87. “Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ I try to fight that. That’s why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.”

— Grace Murray Hopper

88. “The ability to bounce back after a setback is the single most important trait an entrepreneurial venture can possess.”

— Richard Branson

89. “Flexibility is a requirement for survival.”

— Roger Von Oech

90. “Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?”

— Robert Noyce

91. “Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.”

— Peter Hilton

92. “Everything changes, nothing remains without change.”

— Buddha

93. “You are never too old to reinvent yourself.”

— Steve Harvey

94. “Challenging kids are lacking the skills of flexibility, adaptability, frustration tolerance, and problem solving, skills most of us take for granted.”

— Ross W. Greene

95. “You either evolve or dissolve.”

— Usher

96. “If you do not change, you can become extinct !”

— Spencer Johnson

97. “There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstance of your life can change!”

— Rhonda Byrne

98. “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, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.”

— C. JoyBell C.

99. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

100. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

— Theodore Roosevelt