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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIf only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
-
-
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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 -
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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 -
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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 -
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 -
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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 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?
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD -
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD