Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDNever measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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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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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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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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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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