The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPraise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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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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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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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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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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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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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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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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