Morarji Desai Quotes

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

No matter what twists and turns your life offers you, your ability to be adaptable and flexible will help you to stay open to all of the hidden gifts that difficulty may offer.

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them.

If one has a flexible attitude, one knows how to deal with changing situations

It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes.

Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

I always try to adjust to the situation.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.

When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room.

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.