Albert Schweitzer Quotes

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Albert Schweitzer

Profession : Theologian

Birth : January 14, 1875

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

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

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

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

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

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

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

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Example is leadership.

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

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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

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

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We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Albert Schweitzer