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 HAMMARSKJOLDMaturity – 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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