Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Barry Diller

I never thought I was a very good manager.

Billy Sunday

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

Dick Francis

Good manners are a sign of strength.

Cillian Murphy

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

Amy Vanderbilt

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Colley Cibber

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

David Ogilvy

I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.

Jeff Garlin

If you're gonna be a maniac, pyro's not a good maniac.

Joseph Seamon

Let stern lessons of yesterdays be your food, your drink, your rest.

Jeev Milkha Singh

One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.

Toba Beta

Getting older makes you no wiser, but number of lessons that learned.

Sebastian Thrun

In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible.

Tommy Mottola

Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.

Chris Willingham

We can all take lessons from our cats. ... They are very, very perceptual.

Alan Trammel

Those are lessons that we need to learn. I made my statement. I talked to him. It's over.

Al Jourgensen

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Chris Colfer

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.