Top 250 Albert Schweitzer Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”

— Albert Schweitzer

52. “If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.”

— Albert Schweitzer

53. “It is not enough to merely exist. It’s not enough to say, ‘I’m earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I’m a good parent.’ That’s all very well. But you must do something more.”

— Albert Schweitzer

54. “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

55. “Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life.”

— Albert Schweitzer

56. “Don’t blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing.”

— Albert Schweitzer

57. “Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.”

— Albert Schweitzer

58. “I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.”

— Albert Schweitzer

59. “Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.”

— Albert Schweitzer

60. “Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.”

— Albert Schweitzer

61. “Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.”

— Albert Schweitzer

62. “Let your life be your argument.”

— Albert Schweitzer

63. “No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others.”

— Albert Schweitzer

64. “Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help.”

— Albert Schweitzer

65. “Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.”

— Albert Schweitzer

66. “Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.”

— Albert Schweitzer

67. “Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.”

— Albert Schweitzer

68. “At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.”

— Albert Schweitzer

69. “It doesn’t matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.”

— Albert Schweitzer

70. “I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.”

— Albert Schweitzer

71. “We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.”

— Albert Schweitzer

72. “It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.”

— Albert Schweitzer

73. “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

74. “The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.”

— Albert Schweitzer

75. “To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted...”

— Albert Schweitzer

76. “The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.”

— Albert Schweitzer

77. “You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.”

— Albert Schweitzer

78. “Only through love can we obtain communion with God.”

— Albert Schweitzer

79. “Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.”

— Albert Schweitzer

80. “Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don’t want to get off. Don’t blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing.”

— Albert Schweitzer

81. “Your soul suffers if you live superficially.”

— Albert Schweitzer

82. “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

83. “We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

— Albert Schweitzer

84. “My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.”

— Albert Schweitzer

85. “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

86. “You don’t live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.”

— Albert Schweitzer

87. “Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.”

— Albert Schweitzer

88. “Aim for service and success will follow!”

— Albert Schweitzer

89. “Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.”

— Albert Schweitzer

90. “Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.”

— Albert Schweitzer

91. “Those who thank 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, whatever the experience.”

— Albert Schweitzer

92. “By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.”

— Albert Schweitzer

93. “Man’s ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.”

— Albert Schweitzer

94. “The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.”

— Albert Schweitzer

95. “Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.”

— Albert Schweitzer

96. “The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.”

— Albert Schweitzer

97. “Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.”

— Albert Schweitzer

98. “Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”

— Albert Schweitzer

99. “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

100. “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