The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDThe pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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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.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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I never discuss discussions.
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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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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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