You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you...your own choices...what you get…

Quote by Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Choice Quotes, Choices Quotes, Expectation Quotes, Service Quotes

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do...

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do...

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each...

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each...

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thing

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thing

Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens...

Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens...

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his...

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his...

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I...

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I...

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees...

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees...

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill,...

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill,...

The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more...

The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more...

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel...

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel...

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my...

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my...

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in...

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in...

The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to...

The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to...

Happiness? That's nothing more than a good health and a poor memory.

Happiness? That's nothing more than a good health and a poor memory.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further...

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further...

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as...

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as...

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the...

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the...

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on...

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on...