Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDFriendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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