Albert Schweitzer

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

- Albert Schweitzer

"The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Be happy for those who are happy, and weep for those who weep; such is your duty."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Let us never forget that medicine is for people. It is not for profit, it is not for status, it is not for self."

- 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

"Happiness leads to success. Love what you do, and success will follow."

- 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

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

- Albert Schweitzer

"The secret to happiness is not success. The secret to success is happiness."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success"

- Albert Schweitzer

"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

"Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Happiness? That's nothing more than good health and a poor memory."

- 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

"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness."

- Albert Schweitzer

"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- 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

"Example is leadership."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside."

- Albert Schweitzer

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."

- Albert Schweitzer

"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life—music and cats."

- Albert Schweitzer

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."

- Albert Schweitzer

"At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude."

- 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

"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."

- Albert Schweitzer

"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 have sought and found how to serve."

- Albert Schweitzer

"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."

- Albert Schweitzer

"You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for which you get not pay but the privilege of doing it."

- Albert Schweitzer

"It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every person has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to realize his own true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man's 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

"Whatever you have received more than others--in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life--all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Even if it’s a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man’s 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

"You ask me to give you a motto. Here it is: SERVICE. Let this word accompany each of you throughout your life. Let it be before you as you seek your way and your duty in the world. May it be recalled to your minds if ever you are tempted to forget it or set it aside. It will not always be a comfortable companion but it will always be a faithful one. And it will be able to lead you to happiness, no matter what the experiences of your lives are. Never have this word on your lips, but keep it in your hearts. And may it. . . teach you not only to do good but to do it simply and humbly."

- Albert Schweitzer

"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Always hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do something to bring some portion of misery to an end."

- Albert Schweitzer

"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