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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Selection.
I have called this principle,
by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved,
by the term of Natural Selection.
- Charles Darwin
Related topics: Nature Evolution
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle,
gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are often stiffened.
- Billy Graham
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed,
and in such desperate enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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