Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.
Change Quotes
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has” is credited to Margaret Mead and marked disputed. No source from her own time is known. Ralph Keyes, in The Quote Verifier (2006), uses it as an example of how this happens: later books cite each other, and nobody knows where it started.
The sourced entries are more reliable. Marx, in the Theses on Feuerbach (1845): “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” Lampedusa, in Il Gattopardo (1958): “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” Alvin Toffler, in Future Shock (1970), went further: change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
For the ordinary man, instability—change—means dislocation, war, uncertainty, misery, and death.
Waiting for the time to pass you by; hope the winds of change will change your mind.
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.
Weep not that the world changes—did it keep
A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
God perchance will by a happy change restore these things to a settled condition.