"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
- Albert Schweitzer
Compassion
"The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others."
- Albert Schweitzer
Compassion
"Be happy for those who are happy, and weep for those who weep; such is your duty."
- Albert Schweitzer
Compassion
"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
Compassion
"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
- Albert Schweitzer
Compassion
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity