Quotes by

Albert Schweitzer

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

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

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. – 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

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

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

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

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

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

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. – Albert Schweitzer

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. – Albert Schweitzer

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. – Albert Schweitzer

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us now knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work. – Albert Schweitzer

Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory. – Albert Schweitzer

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats. – Albert Schweitzer

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. – 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