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.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIt is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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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 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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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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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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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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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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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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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 more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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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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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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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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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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