Adaptability Quotes

Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be. -Proverb

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. -Proverb

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. -Francis Bacon

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

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt. -Scotty Bowman

One learns to itch where one can scratch. -Ernest Bramah

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. -Sir Winston Churchill

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. -John Dewey

By taking things personally, you set yourself up to suffer. The impact on you and the ripple effects on those around you are unhealthy. -Suzanne Mayo Frindt

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. -Mahatma Gandhi

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. -Alexander Hamilton

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. -Jane Heard

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. -Heinrich Heine

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. -Abraham Maslow

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. -Lucy Maud Montgomery

They are as much for Mars, as for Mercury; as well qualified for war, as for business. -Source Unknown

It is a wise person that adapts themselves to all contingencies; it's the fool who always struggles like a swimmer against the current. -Source Unknown