I would like to begin this august assemblage of quotes on change with my long-held belief about change.

Change is neither good nor bad, it is inevitable.

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them. 
Marcus Aurelius

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. 
Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. 
Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. 
Henri Bergson, philosopher

There is nothing wrong in change, if it is in the right direction. To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often. 
Winston Churchill

 I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. 
Aldous Huxley

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. 
Helen Keller

It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating, they have to be about change. 
Miles Davis

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

 Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away. 
Frida Kahlo

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. 
Andy Warhol

All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change. 
Octavia E. Butler

Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late. 
Seth Godin

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. 
Maya Angelou

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. 
Barack Obama

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. 
Eckhart Tolle

One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world. 
Malala Yousafzai

Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character. 
Amanda Gorman