Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDYour 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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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 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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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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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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