Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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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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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 more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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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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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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