Quotes by Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer
German theologian and doctor
Alive from: 1875-1965
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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.
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Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
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Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
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Example is leadership.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
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Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
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