The Art of Adapting: Quotes on Change & Growth

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don’t let it leave until I extract that value.

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

We have to put action before feeling confidence because when we see ourselves doing challenging things, we start to believe we can.

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

Life is essentially an endless series of problems—the solution to one problem is merely the creation of the next. Don’t hope for a life without problems. Hope for a life full of good problems.

It is more moral for an idea to kill a society than it is for a society to kill an idea.

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.