TOP 42 Albert Schweitzer Quotes

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Albert Schweitzer, (born Jan. 14, 1875, Kaysersberg, Upper Alsace, Ger. [now in France]—died Sept. 4, 1965, Lambaréné, Gabon), Alsatian-German theologian, philosopher, organist, and mission doctor in equatorial Africa, who received the 1952 Nobel Prize for Peace for his efforts in behalf of “the Brotherhood of Nations.”

42 Albert Schweitzer Quotes

• A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. — Albert Schweitzer
• A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. — 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. — 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
• 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. — 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. — Albert Schweitzer
• As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. — 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. — Albert Schweitzer
• By respect for life, we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound, and alive. — 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. — Albert Schweitzer
• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. — Albert Schweitzer
• Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid. — Albert Schweitzer
• Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. — Albert Schweitzer
• Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. — Albert Schweitzer

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• Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer
• Example is leadership. — Albert Schweitzer
• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. — Albert Schweitzer
• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. — Albert Schweitzer
• Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. — 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. — Albert Schweitzer
• If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life. — 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. — Albert Schweitzer
• Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. — Albert Schweitzer
• Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation. — Albert Schweitzer
• Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. — Albert Schweitzer
• Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. — 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
• My life is my argument. — Albert Schweitzer
• 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. — Albert Schweitzer

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• One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. — Albert Schweitzer
• Revenge is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion. — Albert Schweitzer
• Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host. — 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
• The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. — Albert Schweitzer
• The true worth of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others. — Albert Schweitzer
• There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. — Albert Schweitzer
• Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. — Albert Schweitzer
• Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always. — Albert Schweitzer
• We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. — Albert Schweitzer
• We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger. — Albert Schweitzer
• Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. — Albert Schweitzer
• 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. — Albert Schweitzer

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