Quotes By Albert Schweitzer

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

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

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

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.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

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

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.

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.