Quotes 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.

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.

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

Example is leadership.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

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.

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

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.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

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.

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

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

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

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.

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.

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.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

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

My life is my argument.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.