Quotes By Albert Schweitzer

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.