Adapt & Advance Quotes
The strongest do not survive change; the most adaptable do. The man who adjusts his sails keeps advancing while everyone else fights the wind. This Resilience path holds history's wisest quotes on adapting without losing direction. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
“Life is not holding a good hand; life is playing a poor hand well.”
“The key to change is to let go of fear.”
“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
“It is more fun when you choose to change rather than have it imposed on you.”
“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else.”
“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.”
“If you are not where you want to be, do not quit. Instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.”
“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.”
“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.”
“Things do not change. We change.”
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
“Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you.”
“If you believe you can change and start changing your habits, the change becomes real.”
“When you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.”
“You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.”
“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”
“We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing.”
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
“Quitting on time will usually feel like quitting too early.”
“Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.”
“Cut short your losses; let your profits run on.”
“The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'”
“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.”
“Obstacles are simply opportunities for advancement.”
“All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.”
“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open.”
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
“When one door closes, sometimes we need to turn the knob to open another.”
“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
“Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been and look at what can be.”
“Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.”
“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
“Live each day as if your life had just begun.”
“If Plan A fails, remember you have 25 letters left.”
“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.”
“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!”
“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.”
“You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain.”
“Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.”
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
“Instead of thinking of the problem, be the answer.”
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
