Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Difficult times often bring out the best in people.

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.

I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

To the stars through thorns.

To do good, and be evil spoken of, is kingly.

Not everybody gets to play their first year or second year. Some people have to go through adversity.

The way my father worked altruistically and the manner in which he used to go behind bars and come back home smilingly was inspirational.

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

I try to be a good person every day. If you didn't like me, there would be something wrong with you, because I really go out and work as hard as I can to help people. I put myself last - always. I'm a giver all the way.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.