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

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

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Albert Schweitzer

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.
Albert Schweitzer

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
Albert Schweitzer

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.
Albert Schweitzer

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

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

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
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