Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDPraise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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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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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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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 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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
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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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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.
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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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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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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
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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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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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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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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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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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