The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
-
-
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD