Best Albert Schweitzer Quotes On Success
1- “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
2- “We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
3- “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
4- “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
5- “Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
6- “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
7- “The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
8- “Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don’t live in a world all of your own” ~ Albert Schweitzer
9- “A good example has twice the value of good advice” ~ Albert Schweitzer
10- “If you own something you cannot give away, then you don’t own it, it owns you.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
11- “At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
12- “The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
13- “There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
14- “The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
15- “Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
16- “Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
17- “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
18- “Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life” ~ Albert Schweitzer
19- “Let your life be your argument.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
20- “Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
21- “Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
22- “The three most important ways to lead people are:… by example… by example… by example.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
23- “Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
24- “Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
25- “If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
26- “At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
27- “We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity’s sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
28- “Man has become a superman … because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command … olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service…. But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts … is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
29- “When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation…nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
30- “Do something good and someone might imitate it.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
31- “Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
32- “Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
33- “You must not expect anything from others. It’s you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it’s up to you – your own choices – what you get from others remains a present, a gift.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
34- “In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
35- “Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
36- “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.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
37- “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.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
38- “It is not enough merely to exist. It’s not enough to say, “I’m earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I’m a good father, husband, churchgoer.” That’s all very well. But you must do something more. 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. Even if it’s a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
39- “The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
40- “The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live…. The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life” ~ Albert Schweitzer
41- “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
42- “My life is my argument.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
43- “No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it–to remain children of light.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
44- “An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
45- “We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
46- “God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
47- “The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
48- “For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death…and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
49- “The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
50- “I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
