Albert Schweitzer Quotes

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.
Albert Schweitzer

Friendship, Life, Time

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

Gratitude, Deep, Person

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.
Albert Schweitzer

Thankful, Human, Light

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

Life, Live, Others

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

Happiness, Good, Health

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

Sunday, Soul, Taken

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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
Albert Schweitzer

May, Wonderful, Imitate

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
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Pet, Life, Music

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

Love, Success, Happiness

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer

Strength, Adversity, Obstacles

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

Kindness, Sun, Makes

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Albert Schweitzer

Yourself, Suffering, Sight

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

Life, Help, Human

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

Wise, Person, Light

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

Living, Compassion, Ethics

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.
Albert Schweitzer

Happy, Destiny, Found

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

Life, Men, Help

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.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Good, Spiritual

Example is leadership.
Albert Schweitzer

Leadership, Example

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

Good, Accept, Few

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.
Albert Schweitzer

Thought, Jesus, Against

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.
Albert Schweitzer

Great, Character, Mind

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.
Albert Schweitzer

True, Others, Worth

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.
Albert Schweitzer

Sleep, Night, Again

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

Everyday, Somebody, Paid

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Theologian

Born: January 14, 1875

Died: September 4, 1965

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