Albert Schweitzer Quotes

• 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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in History, Truth

  Tags in Happens, Spirit

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Misery, Pain, Help, Feel, Personal

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Ethics, Compassion, Reverent, Foundation

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Alive, Found

• Revenge… is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greater, Revenge, Violence

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obstacles, Overcoming, Never Give Up

• 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

  Topics in Kindness, Service

  Tags in Gratitude, Flame

• 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

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Gratitude, Flame

• 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

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Wonder, Tree

• The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life, Success

  Tags in Great, Secret

• My life is my argument.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Argument

• Example is leadership.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Example

• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Influencing, Example

• Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Ethics, Else

• Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward [people], but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Ethics, Humanism, Duty

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Helping

• 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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Help

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compassion, Misery, Charity

• 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

  Topics in Spirituality

  Tags in Road

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Orphan, Rest

Albert Schweitzer (81)

Birth:	14th January, 1875
Death:	4th September, 1965
Nationality:	German, French
Profession:	Philosopher, Physician, Theologian

About

Albert Schweitzer was a German and later French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary in Africa, also known for his interpretive life of Jesus. He was born in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life", expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa.

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