Evolutionary Force Quotes

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.

The purposiveness of all vital processes, the strategy of the genes and the power of the exploratory drive in animal and man, all seem to indicate that the pull of the future is as real as the pressure of the past.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for reunion with wholeness. It's the call of your soul urging you to return to your own path and purpose. It's the force of evolution driving you home. Do not try to deny or override your divine discontent. Heed its call. Knowing "this can't be it" implies that somewhere inside you, you DO know what IS it.

For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.

Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.