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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDLife 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
-
-
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
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.
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 -
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
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.
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 -
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 HAMMARSKJOLD -
Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD