Albert Schweitzer quotes

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

My life is my argument.
- Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

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

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.
- Albert Schweitzer

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.
- Albert Schweitzer

Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.
- Albert Schweitzer

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
- Albert Schweitzer

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
- Albert Schweitzer

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.
- Albert Schweitzer

Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.
- 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

As we understand life in ourselves, we want to understand life in the universe, in order to enter into harmony with it.
- Albert Schweitzer

The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am the 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

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.
- Albert Schweitzer