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 HAMMARSKJOLDI am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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.
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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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.
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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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