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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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The myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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 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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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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