110+ Albert Schweitzer Quotes On Service, Animals And Compassionate

Albert Schweitzer was a German theologian, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. He was born in 1875 in Germany and is best known for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life", which he based on ethics of Jesus. He is also known for founding a hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon, where he worked as a doctor and provided medical care to the local people. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Albert Schweitzer on service, animals, compassionate.

Top 10 Albert Schweitzer Quotes

1. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
2. 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.
3. The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
4. Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.
5. There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
6. 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.
7. Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
8. Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
9. God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.
10. Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitzer Image Quotes

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid. — Albert Schweitzer

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. — Albert Schweitzer

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. — Albert Schweitzer

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. — Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer Short Quotes

• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
• Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
• Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
• One person can and does make a difference.
• Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
• Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
• Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
• To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
• It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.

Albert Schweitzer Quotes About Service

Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help. — Albert Schweitzer

There is no higher religion than human service. — Albert Schweitzer

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. — Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed. — Albert Schweitzer

If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty. — Albert Schweitzer

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too. — Albert Schweitzer

We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called. — Albert Schweitzer

Aim for service and success will follow! — Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer Quotes About Animals

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

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human. — Albert Schweitzer

When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. — Albert Schweitzer

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives. — Albert Schweitzer

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. — Albert Schweitzer

The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration? — Albert Schweitzer

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him. — Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.' — Albert Schweitzer

By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe. — Albert Schweitzer

The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another. — Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer Quotes About Life

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

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. — Albert Schweitzer

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer

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

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

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive. — Albert Schweitzer

Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life. — Albert Schweitzer

At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be. — Albert Schweitzer

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me? — Albert Schweitzer

Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others. — Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer Quotes About Ethics

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. — Albert Schweitzer

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. — Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. — Albert Schweitzer

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives. — Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer

We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also. — 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 in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life. — Albert Schweitzer

Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any philosophy not representing this, not based on the indefinite totality of life, is bound to disappear. — Albert Schweitzer

In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought. — Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer Quotes About World

Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own — Albert Schweitzer

There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts. — Albert Schweitzer

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

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed. — Albert Schweitzer

Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole. — Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe. — Albert Schweitzer

The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they are united by a secret bond. — Albert Schweitzer

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

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

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world. — Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer Quotes About Light

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

Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us. — 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

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

Be the flame! Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. — Albert Schweitzer

When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts. — Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer Quotes About Live

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. — Albert Schweitzer

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

Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe. — Albert Schweitzer

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will. — Albert Schweitzer

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it. — Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own. — Albert Schweitzer

It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love. — Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. — Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live. — Albert Schweitzer

Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life. — Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer Famous Quotes And Sayings

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace. — Albert Schweitzer

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid. — Albert Schweitzer

For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words. — Albert Schweitzer

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. — Albert Schweitzer

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer

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

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. — Albert Schweitzer

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His. — Albert Schweitzer

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course. — Albert Schweitzer

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

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water. — Albert Schweitzer

Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil....It is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity. — Albert Schweitzer

The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life — 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

The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work. — Albert Schweitzer

Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. — Albert Schweitzer

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

I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs as soon as ever a sufficient number of people with purity of heart, with strength, and with perseverance think and live out the thoughts of love and truth, of meekness and peaceableness. — Albert Schweitzer

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them. — Albert Schweitzer

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger. — Albert Schweitzer

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics. — Albert Schweitzer

Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude. — Albert Schweitzer

It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within. — Albert Schweitzer

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious. — Albert Schweitzer

Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen. — Albert Schweitzer

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. — Albert Schweitzer

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. — Albert Schweitzer

The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and reaching a state of fresh hope and fresh determination. — Albert Schweitzer

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. — Albert Schweitzer

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not. — Albert Schweitzer

In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing. — Albert Schweitzer

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries. — Albert Schweitzer

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. — Albert Schweitzer

Constant Kindness can accomplish much. — Albert Schweitzer

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil. — Albert Schweitzer

I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult. — Albert Schweitzer

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity. — Albert Schweitzer

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. — Albert Schweitzer

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life. — Albert Schweitzer

What we call love is in its essence reverence for life. — Albert Schweitzer

A good example has twice the value of good advice — Albert Schweitzer

Each act of unfaithfulness toward our inner being is a blot on our souls. If we continue to be unfaithful, our souls are eventually torn apart and we slowly bleed to death. — Albert Schweitzer

Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of the world and of life contains within itself an optimistic willing and hoping which can never be lost. It is, therefore, never afraid to face the dismal reality and to see it as it really is. — Albert Schweitzer

In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.' — Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. — Albert Schweitzer

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. — Albert Schweitzer

What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place. — Albert Schweitzer

The doctor of the future will be oneself. — Albert Schweitzer

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. — Albert Schweitzer

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force. — Albert Schweitzer

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth. — Albert Schweitzer

The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. — Albert Schweitzer

I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others. — Albert Schweitzer

Preservation of life is the only true joy. — Albert Schweitzer

Life Lessons by Albert Schweitzer

1. Albert Schweitzer taught that it is important to live a life of service and to strive to make the world a better place. He believed that everyone should strive to be a force for good and to help others in need.
2. He also taught that it is important to be humble and to recognize that we are all connected to one another. He encouraged people to be compassionate and to act with kindness and understanding.
3. Finally, Albert Schweitzer believed that it is essential to be open to learning and to be willing to grow and change. He believed that it is important to strive for personal growth and to never stop learning.