Adapt & Advance Quotes

“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”

“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.”

“You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.”

“They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”

“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”

“The important thing is that we must be constantly moving forward, the progressive realization of a predetermined goal. And our growth should never end.”

“It is more fun when you choose to change rather than have it imposed on you.”

“My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had, everyday I'm learning something new.”

“Progress is impossible without change and those that cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”

“If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.”

“If you're not embarrassed by last week's work, you're not learning fast enough.”

“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”

“Growth is the only evidence of life.”

“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”

“Things do not change. We change.”

“You can’t do today’s jobs with yesterday’s methods and be in business tomorrow”

“The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.”

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.”

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”

“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”

“Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.”

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

“The ability to learn is not fixed. It can change with your effort.”

“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.”

“When one door closes, sometimes we need to turn the knob to open another.”

“If you believe you can change and start changing your habits, the change becomes real.”

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

“There is no better personal development tool than running your own business.”

“If you are not where you want to be, do not quit. Instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.”

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.”

“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.”

“I deeply believe that everything happens for us, not to us, and if we can take all parts of our journey, the good and the bad, with the same hunger for knowledge and willingness to dissect what worked and what didn't, then all of it will be a blessing in the end.”

“The only constant in the world is change.”

“Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.”

“I want to grow. I want to be better. You grow. We all grow. We're made to grow. You either evolve, or you disappear.”

“Change before you have to.”

“Negative people present us with an accelerated personal growth opportunity.”

“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.”

“Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster”

“The species that survive are usually not the smartest or strongest, but the ones most responsive to change.”

“If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”

“I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about.”

“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.”

“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”

“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”

“In a world of constant change, the only sustainable advantage is the ability to learn faster than the competition.”

“When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.”

“Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.”

“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.”

“The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.”

“The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.”

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

“All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.”

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

“We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.”

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

“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.”

“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open.”

“You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.”

“You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes you're not, but it's the average that counts.”

“Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.”

“If the plan doesn't work, change the plan but never the goal.”

“Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.”

“You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.”

“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”

“There is nothing permanent except change.”

“As a CEO, I am finding that I have to become a learning CEO. I have to go to school all the time because I am learning new skills that I need to run this company. I have to constantly renew my skills.”

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

“What’s dangerous is not to evolve”

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

“Iteration is the fundamental basis of all improvement.”

“You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread, stale and dry.”

“To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time”

“Learning is not a spectator sport.”

“Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away”

“Retreat does not come quickly to the brightest people, yet strategic retreat, sacrifice, and deciding what to give up are at the core of success”

“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.”

“Either we manage change, or change will manage us.”

“Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.”

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”

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

“I can never be safe. I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.”

“Everything is affected by and is part of everything else, changing constantly from one state to another. The rain becomes the river; the river surrenders to the sea and the cycle begins over again. Nothing is ever lost. The melody changes - the dance goes on.”

“It is never too late to be wise.”

“Change is the end result of all true learning.”

“Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.”

“The man who views the world at 50 the same he did at 20 has wasted thirty years of his life.”

“The key to change is to let go of fear.”

“Build a company that can adapt to change.”

“I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.”

“Accept the pain of the past. Learn the lessons of the past. Embrace the nostalgic memories of the past. Then dream big dreams of the future and start chasing them!”

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

“Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you.”

“Live each day as if your life had just begun.”

“I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.”

“If Plan A fails, remember you have 25 letters left.”

“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else.”

“Change is inevitable - embrace it or get left behind.”

“Be like water, my friend.”

“The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. There is no such thing as a setback. The lessons I learn today I will apply tomorrow, and I will be better.”

“One cannot step twice in the same river.”

“You can’t just keep doing what works one time; everything around you is always changing. To succeed, stay out in front of that change”

“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”

“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”

“If you don't change, you can become extinct.”

“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.”

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

“Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been and look at what can be.”

“You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.”

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”

“Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”

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

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

“You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.”

“In order to have you must do, and in order to do you must be.”

“Obstacles are simply opportunities for advancement.”

“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”

“If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.”

“Every problem is an opportunity to grow, and advance towards your full potential.”

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”

“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”

“Life is not holding a good hand; life is playing a poor hand well.”

“Your life doesn't get better by chance; it gets better by change.”

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... it's about learning to dance in the rain.”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

“The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change.”

“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.”

“Most people die when they're 25 but aren't buried until they're 75.”

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”

“It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.”

“A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”

“Flexible people never get bent out of shape.”

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”