Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Example is leadership. "
Albert Schweitzer
Example
Leadership
Related Quotes:
" 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
Bring
End
Thought
" Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. "
Albert Schweitzer
Sight
Think
You
" 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
Wise
Only
Person
" Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. "
Albert Schweitzer
Perfection
Ethics
Man
" The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. "
Albert Schweitzer
Go
Great
Never
" 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
Sleep
Only
Night
" A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. "
Albert Schweitzer
Order
Saint
Angel
" Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. "
Albert Schweitzer
Ethics
Than
Life
" We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. "
Albert Schweitzer
Dying
Loneliness
Much
" The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others. "
Albert Schweitzer
Alive
Come
Man
" Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation. "
Albert Schweitzer
Man
Devils
Creation
" Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. "
Albert Schweitzer
Tree
You
Beautiful
" Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal. "
Albert Schweitzer
Life
Appeal
Court
" Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. "
Albert Schweitzer
Only
Example
Main
" The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. "
Albert Schweitzer
Step
Evolution
Ethics
" 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
Mind
Character
Moving On
" As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. "
Albert Schweitzer
Thought
Mysterious
Existence
" The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is. "
Albert Schweitzer
Earth
Love
Spirit
" Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. "
Albert Schweitzer
Health
Good Health
Happiness
" One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. "
Albert Schweitzer
Truth
Strong
Spiritual
" Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. "
Albert Schweitzer
Live
My Life
Ocean
" 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
Compassion
Ethics
Life
" Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. "
Albert Schweitzer
Light
Human
Thankful
" By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive. "
Albert Schweitzer
Spiritual
Life
Deep
" Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host. "
Albert Schweitzer
Serious
Me
Long
" Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. "
Albert Schweitzer
Way
Accept
Good
" 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. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too. "
Albert Schweitzer
Live
Good
Man
" The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. "
Albert Schweitzer
He
Tragedy
Man
" I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words. "
Albert Schweitzer
Doctor
Giving
Myself
" My life is my argument. "
Albert Schweitzer
Life
My Life
Argument