One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Quote by Albert Schweitzer
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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Albert Schweitzer Quotes
- The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- 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.
- The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
- The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
- There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Best Quotes
- Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
- Money for me today does not really matter.
- Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
- Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
- It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
- The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.
- Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.
- Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
- We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
- I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.