Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Example is leadership... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it.. view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation... view

By: Albert Schweitzer

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics... view

By: Albert Schweitzer