Albert Schweitzer
Alsatian-German physician and humanitarian, 1875-1965
31 quotes.
Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- A good example has twice the value of good advice.
- A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
- At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.
- Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
- Do something good and someone might imitate it.
- Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Example is leadership.
- Example is not the main thing in influencing others . It is the only thing.
- Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
- Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
- Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.
- If you own something you cannot give away, then you don’t own it, it owns you.
- If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.
- Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.
- Let your life be your argument.
- Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
- My life is my argument.
- No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
- One person can and does make a difference.
- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
- The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.
- The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
- To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
- Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
- Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- 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.
- I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you that will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.