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.
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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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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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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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 only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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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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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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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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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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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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