Quotes from Albert Schweitzer

 

• A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
• Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
• You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
• Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
• I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
• 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.
• Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
• The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
• 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.