Best Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold (Top 10)
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
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Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something,and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness — by making the ultimate escape from life. — No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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