Words matter. These are the best Albert Schweitzer Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
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.
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
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.
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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.
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.
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.
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.
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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.
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.
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.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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 African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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.
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
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.
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
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.
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.
