These agility quotes will inspire you. Agility ability to move quickly and easily or ability to think and understand quickly.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging agility quotes, agility sayings, and agility proverbs.
Famous Agility Quotes
- “Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.” ~ Bill Gates
- “Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change … agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.” ~ Jim Highsmith
- “Strength without agility is a mere mass.” ~ Fernando Pessoa
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“Innovation is key. Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- “Speed, agility, and responsiveness are the keys to future success.” ~ Anita Roddick
- “Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.” ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- “Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowledge down in plans.” ~ Barry Boehm
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“The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.” ~ Peter Drucker
- “The game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals given by these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth.” ~ Adrian Slywotzky , Business agility quotes
- “Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts, and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it’s a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport.” ~ Samantha Stosur , Workout agility quotes
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“I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired individuals can only do so much.” ~ Ray Stata
- “Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.” ~ Buck Rodgers
- “I couldn’t have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility, and quickness.” ~ Hope Solo
- “I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.” ~ Merlin Olsen
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“Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.” ~ Chuck Hagel
- “I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility.” ~ Mark-Paul Gosselaar
- “It’s like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.” ~ Elizabeth Lesser
- “At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that ‘news’ is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different–in the crunch, his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
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“Painting is something that takes place among the colors.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains.” ~ Charles Baudelaire
- “As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.” ~ Jean Baudrillard
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“I’ve got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.” ~ Eminem
- “No one need worry about our getting the best of God in some bargain with him, or that we might somehow succeed in using him for our purposes. Anyone who thinks this is a problem has seriously underestimated the intelligence and agility of our Father in the heavens. He will not be tricked or cheated.” ~ Dallas Willard
- “We are organized by territories, whereas terrorists are organized into networks. States are very slow and terrorists are extremely fast. Intelligence sharing needs to expand beyond the regional and become global and not country-focused. We need to acquire speed and agility.” ~ Ashraf Ghani
- “It’s not just straight-line speed. He’s got the agility and the quickness to go with it. His vision on the field is phenomenal. It just opens the playbook so much as a coach that I’m really looking forward to it.” ~ LeBron James
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“The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably – as it now appears to me – by those not exclusively dependent upon them.” ~ Tony Judt
- “To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman’s eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!” ~ Jimmy Doolittle
- “Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.” ~ Steve Ballmer
- “Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.” ~ Benjamin Millepied
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“My agility is the CEO of the United Global Agility Corporation” ~ Steve Nash
- “A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease-producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.” ~ Christian D. Larson
- “Ruy-Sanchez’s works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words… His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.” ~ Octavio Paz
- “Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.” ~ Isaac Asimov
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“God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.” ~ Dillon Burroughs
- “From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient. From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility. From their verbal sparring, they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful. From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise. And sometimes, from their envy of each other’s special abilities, they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.” ~ Adele Faber , Learning agility quotes
- “Of all animals, the outward form of the Lion is the most striking; his look is bold and confident; his gait proud, and his voice terrible; and from his great strength and agility, is usually styled the king of beasts.” ~ William Pinnock
- “If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.” ~ Novalis
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“I don’t feel that no fighter has the mental or physical agility to match Floyd Mayweather.” ~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of self-confidence, is far more exposed and naked to death than the individual who subjects himself to battle shorn of any protection but his own skill, his own belief in himself and in his wingman. Righteousness is necessary for one’s peace of mind, perhaps, but it is a poor substitute for agility . . . and a resolution to meet the enemy under any conditions and against any odds.” ~ Robert S. Johnson
- “No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will find no other exercise more valuable in the cultivation of faculties which will help him to success in agility, strength, determination, coolness, and quick exercise of judgement.” ~ Hugh Leonard
- “A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.” ~ Agnes Repplier
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“The thing which Reagan did, which was great, was he won the people. He marginalized the media. And that’s what you need, an intellectual agility.” ~ Greg Gutfeld
- “I have been practising yoga for over a decade now, and it is a very important part of my life. It doesn’t matter where I am or what I am doing, yoga gives me the opportunity to switch off and focus entirely on my body and my breath. Yoga allows me to meditate and reflect on what’s important in my life. It is also great for core strength and maintaining agility.” ~ Miranda Kerr
- “Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and very little strength. How many murders wouldn’t happen, if they all had to use hammers and knives?” ~ John D. MacDonald
- “As a child, I had a deck of Marvel top trumps. You can get top trumps with racing cars, or fighter planes, or football players… I had all of the Marvel superheroes and super-villains you could get, and I used to play them with my friends. They were all listed according to their height and weight and agility and their superpowers.” ~ Tom Hiddleston
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“Lleyton Hewitt… his two greatest strengths are his legs, his speed, his agility and his competitiveness.” ~ Pat Cash
- “So something I’ve felt I’ve learned with The Cosmopolitans shoot is using some agility and changing things quickly. That’s something I found really useful on this shoot too. The gestation of The Cosmopolitans and this are slightly different from my other films. The script would be done and I’d be cutting it, but I wasn’t always writing new material.” ~ Whit Stillman
- “I don’t enjoy the diminishing agility of the body! I had knee surgery and I no longer can go do three yoga classes and run. It’s not as much fun, physically. But emotionally, it’s way more fun. I am so much happier and contented and less agitated – I’m just calmer. So it’s like everything in this human existence, it’s a trade-off – it’s like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit. That’s a good line. I have to remember that!” ~ Elizabeth Lesser
- “Cats are great with clicker training. There’s a great video you can get called “Clicker Magic”. There’s a scene in that video where a cat is trained to go through a mini dog agility course – it’s all done with food motivation and clicker training. You can train them to do all sorts of thing.” ~ Temple Grandin , Dog agility quotes
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“Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as it is familiar, for which Jews are above all known, and that is shrewdness in business.” ~ Steven Pinker
- “So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never actually entrust my heart to scientists—they’d probably implant it in a baboon. And a baboon with my heart would be practically unstoppable. Baboon strength and agility combined with my determination and media savvy? It would be a threat to all of humanity.” ~ Stephen Colbert
- “I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting, and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.” ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Agility is the quality or state of being agile: nimbleness, dexterity.
