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 HAMMARSKJOLDA 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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 more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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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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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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