Change is inevitable…

• As with anything creative, change is inevitable. Enya
• Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable. Barbara Sher
• Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. John C. Maxwell
• Change is inevitable. Change is constant. Benjamin Disraeli
• Change is inevitable in music – things change. John Coltrane
• Change is possible.’ ‘Change is inevitable. Lois McMaster Bujold
• Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice. Bob Proctor
• Change is inevitable. Why hold onto what you have to let go of? Jhene Aiko
• In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital. Warren G. Bennis
• Change is inevitable and always good in one sense or the other. Michael Jackson
• Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job. Adlai E. Stevenson
• Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards. Nicholas Sparks
• Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change. Edwards Deming
• Change is inevitable, though, he replied. As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now. Sarah Dessen
• The key to developing the courage to change is to first accept that change is inevitable. Wallace Nesbitt
• It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today. Isaac Asimov
• Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity. Robert Scoble
• We’re all really happy with what’s familiar. But what’s inevitable in life is change. That’s what life is. Toni Collette
• Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us. Yehuda Berg
• In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival. Andrew Young
• See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth. Susan L. Taylor
• I have never come across a technology that doesn’t change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops. Gijs de Vries
• Life’s inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills. Roger Crawford
• Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer. Robert MacNeil
• Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. William Pollard
• The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us. Donna Farhi
• Change is inevitable in life. You can either resist it and potentially get run over by it, or you can choose to cooperate with it, adapt to it, and learn how to benefit from it. When you embrace change you will begin to see it as an opportunity for growth. Jack Canfield
• It’s not always about survival, this life we are given; it’s usually so much easier than that. It’s about trusting the eternal life force that is flowing within us-letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth. Elizabeth Lesser
• Life is movement. Movement is change. Every time a sub molecular particle swings through time and space, something is changing. Change, therefore, is inevitable. It is the nature of life itself. The trick in life is not to try to avoid change, but to create change. Then it is the kind of change you choose. Neale Donald Walsch
• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking. Isaac Asimov
• Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human. But the cultures we possess vary enormously. Indeed, the variability, over time and space is the great evolutionary advantage of humanity. Instead of changing biologically over millennia, human beings can change culturally over decades. Martin Wolf
• If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, or others’ opinion of us, or the success of some project we’re involved in, sooner or later we’re bound to be battered by life’s inevitable changes. After all, money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity. Dalai Lama
• My body has changed and it will continue change in the future — that is natural for anyone. What matters to me most is that even though external change is inevitable, my passion for encouraging women to love themselves at any size and to live, thrive, and to go after their dreams is a part of my permanent nature. Even though my body and mind may evolve through life and experience, my values on this matter have not. Crystal Renn
• The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits by the conventional way of accounting for profits. It’s very hard to make yourself change. But we all know that change is an inevitable part of business. Once you have ridden a wave just so far, you have to get another wave. We all know that. For us, becoming restorative has been that new wave and we have been riding it for 13 years now. It’s been incredibly good for business. Ray Anderson
• On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at a variable rate according to the nature, condition, or situation of the objects involved, but are nevertheless accomplished within a certain period of time. Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for Nature. It is always at her disposal and represents an unlimited power with which she accomplishes her greatest and smallest tasks. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at a variable rate according to the nature, condition, or situation of the objects involved, but are nevertheless accomplished within a certain period of time. Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for Nature. It is always at her disposal and represents an unlimited power with which she accomplishes her greatest and smallest tasks. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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…all we can be certain of…

• Nothing is for sure. Change is the only thing that is the absolute. John Feldmann
• There’s nothing I know for sure, because I know for sure that things change. Ellen DeGeneres
• There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change. John F. Kennedy
• Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow. Phil Crosby
• Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. Robert Browning

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…for change is the law of life

• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy
• Since ’tis Nature’s law to change, Constancy alone is strange. John Wilmot
• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. Edmund Burke
• What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows–it must grow smaller or larger, better or worse–it cannot stand still. In other words, we change–and must change, constantly, and keep on changing as long as we live. What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he’s stuck in a rut. Mark Twain
• Change is the law of God’s mind and resistance to it is the source of all pain. Craig Ferguson
• Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring. Louis L’Amour
• Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change. Robert Burns
• Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature of life, then clinging is stupidity, because your clinging is not going to change the law of life. Your clinging is only going to make you miserable. Things are bound to change; whether you cling or not does not matter. If you cling you become miserable: you cling and they change, you feel frustrated. If you don`t cling they still change, but then there is no frustration because you were perfectly aware that they are bound to change. This is how things are, this is the suchness of life. Rajneesh
• Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law. Ferdinand de Saussure
• We live in an in-between universe where things change all right…but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature. Carl Sagan
• Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. John F. Kennedy
• In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary. Frank Herbert

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While change is inevitable, progress is not

• Change is inevitable, progress is not. Max McKeown
• Change is inevitable. Progress is optional . Tony Robbins
• Where progress is desire,  change  is Inevitable.  Matthew Ashimolowo
• Change is inevitable; but progress depends on what we do with that change. Charles Wheelan
• Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw
• One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values. Hillary Clinton

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We cannot change the inevitable, but we can always change ourselves

• If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won’t change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn’t want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn’t possible alter. Dale Carnegie
• We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. Charles R. Swindoll
• When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves. Viktor E. Frank

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On a lighter note

• Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.