Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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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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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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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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 myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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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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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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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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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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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