A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer Quote

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
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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.
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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.
- Albert Schweitzer Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer Quote

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 Quote

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

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
- Albert Schweitzer Quote

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer Quote

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thing.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
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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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
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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 Quote

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 Quote

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.
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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer Quote

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 Quote

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
- Albert Schweitzer Quote

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer Quote

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer Quote

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
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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.
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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
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Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
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We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
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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.
- Albert Schweitzer Quote