Quotes 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

My life is my argument.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

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

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.

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.

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

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

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

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

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

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.