Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDOnly he deserves power who every day justifies it.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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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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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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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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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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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 more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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