Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDGod 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.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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I never discuss discussions.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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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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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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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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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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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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