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May you find great value in these Evolution quotes and sayings.
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin
Everything we believe is a matter of evolution and history.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have called this principle,
by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved,
by the term of Natural Selection.
- Charles Darwin
On the ordinary view of each species
having been independently created,
we gain no scientific explanation.
- Charles Darwin
In the struggle for survival,
the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals
because they succeed in adapting
themselves best to their environment.
- Charles Darwin
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped,
probably arboreal in its habits.
- Charles Darwin
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
Breaking up is a natural evolution
when you try to figure out what you want in life.
If you're with an individual
who isn't moving in the same direction
and at the same rate that you are,
it ain't going to work.
- Usher Raymond
I believe in intuition and inspiration.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited,
whereas imagination embraces the entire world,
stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
- Albert Einstein
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
Overflowing Cup of Tea:
The Zen Master poured his visitor's teacup full, and then kept pouring.
The visitor watched until he could no longer restrain himself.
"It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," the Zen Master said,
"you are full of your own opinions and assumptions.
How can you learn truth until you first empty your cup?"
- Traditional Zen Koan
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
First meditate, be blissful,
then much love will happen of its own accord.
Then being with others is beautiful
and being alone is also beautiful.
Then it is simple, too.
You dont depend on others
and you dont make others dependent on you.
- Osho
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
First, wash all car. Then wax. Wax on...
Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off.
Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off.
Don't forget to breathe, very important.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life ... is like a parachute jump:
you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first,
rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
- Henry David Thoreau
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