Aim for service and success will follow!
Interpretation
Focusing on helping others can lead to personal achievement.
This quote by Albert Schweitzer emphasizes that when individuals prioritize serving others and contributing positively to their communities, success in their own lives will naturally follow. It suggests that a selfless approach not only benefits those around us but can also create opportunities for personal growth and fulfillment.
In practice
During a motivational speech, one could say, 'As Albert Schweitzer wisely stated, 'Aim for service and success will follow!'
I do not want to frighten you by telling you about the temptations life will bring. Anyone who is healthy in spirit will overcome them. But there is something I want you to realize. It does not matter so much what you do. What matters is whether your soul is harmed by what you do. If your soul is harmed, something irreparable happens, the extent of which you won't realize until it will be too late.
Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.
By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.
The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
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I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.
I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?'
Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves.
Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give me a handbook on how to do it; they said do it. Under those conditions you go out and develop your own handbook.
My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball.
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