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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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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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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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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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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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