Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

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Dag Hammarskjold

Profession : Diplomat

Birth : July 29, 1905

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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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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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, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

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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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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

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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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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

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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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Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

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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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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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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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