43 Albert Schweitzer Quotes

 

  • Example is leadership. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find
    peace. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • Love includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • The beginning of all spiritual life of any real value is courageous faith in truth. – Albert Schweitzer

 

79 Quotes On Ambition

 

  • What we call love is in its essence reverence for life. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • I decided that I would make my life my argument. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • In case my life should end with cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone: “We have eaten Dr Schweitzer. He was good to the end.” – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • The most important thing in education is to make young people think for themselves. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. – 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. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. – Albert Schweitzer

 

Albert Schweitzer quotes featured

  • The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • If you love something so much – let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn’t it never was. – Albert Schweitzer

 

36 Inspirational Aeschylus quotes

 

  • Grow into your ideals, so that life can never rob you of them. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now. Always. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • With a little reason and much heart, one can change many things, or move mountains. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. – Albert Schweitzer

 

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

 

  • I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought – that is a real force. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity. – 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 color-blind. – 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 if they even roll a few more upon it. – 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. – Albert Schweitzer

 

  • Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.– Albert Schweitzer