Albert Schweitzer Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Albert Schweitzer
Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
- Albert Schweitzer
Related topics: Values
Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
By respect for life we become religious in a way
that is elementary, profound and alive.
- 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
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding
everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
- Albert Schweitzer
My life is my argument.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer
The highest proof of the spirit is love.
Love is the eternal thing which men can already
on earth possess as it really is.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
We are all so much together,
but we are all dying of loneliness.
- Albert Schweitzer
Think occasionally of the suffering
of which you spare yourself the sight.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
- Albert Schweitzer
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
Truth has no special time of its own.
Its hour is now - always.
- Albert Schweitzer
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do something for somebody everyday
for which you do not get paid.
- Albert Schweitzer
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall.
He will end by destroying the earth.
- 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
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure
the inner perfection of his own personality.
- Albert Schweitzer
Until he extends the circle of
his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
Reverence Sayings
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
Pursue Sayings
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
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Our Sayings
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise Hay
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing
that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Through our own recovered innocence
we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
- Henry David Thoreau
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dreams are renewable no matter what our age.
- Dale Turner
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn
Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
The path to love ... is our spiritual destiny.
- Deepak Chopra
Life is all in our Perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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