33 Quotes About Adapting to Change

Just because something is different, does not mean that it is bad. For many complacent individuals, change can be unwanted in his/her life. These quotes about adapting to change offer the perfect encouragement you may need at this point in time.

“A true champion can adapt to anything.”

“‘Adapt and overcome’ is my new motto.”

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

“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.”

“Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.”

“All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I’m in.”

“I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it’s abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some point it’s no longer there – and so, when you look at that bigger picture, yes, you realize that either you change and adapt, or, as a species, you go extinct.”

“I wouldn’t want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.”

“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.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.”

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”

“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”

“Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.”

“No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.”

“Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.”

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. It’s the end you’re after.”

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”

“The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.”

“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher”

“The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.”

“There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment – you can truly be yourself.”

“There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.”

“There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.”

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are future.”

“You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.”

There are many ways to deal with change. The first and foremost strategy you should try is to adapt to it.