Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

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.
Dag Hammarskjold

Forgiveness, Broken, Dream

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship, Loneliness, Words

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold

Great, Loneliness, Live

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.
Dag Hammarskjold

Loneliness, Makes, Share

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.
Dag Hammarskjold

Him, Destiny, Started

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 Hammarskjold

Down, Find, Before

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.
Dag Hammarskjold

God, Daily, Die

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjold

Insecurity, Playing, Create

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
Dag Hammarskjold

Good, Important, May

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold

Nature, Until, Top

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold

Peace, End, Cannot

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
Dag Hammarskjold

May, Grow, Simpler

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
Dag Hammarskjold

Strength, Life, Away

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
Dag Hammarskjold

Time, Christmas, Happy

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjold

Insecurity, Play, Create

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold

Peace, Quiet, Deny

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Dag Hammarskjold

Yourself, Give, Individual

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.
Dag Hammarskjold

Alone, Integrity, Moment

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
Dag Hammarskjold

Death, Find, Makes

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjold

Destiny, Put, Choose

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
Dag Hammarskjold

Within, Listen, Hear

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
Dag Hammarskjold

Social, Dying, Party

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 Hammarskjold

Life, Living, Others

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Dag Hammarskjold

Freedom, Fear, Human

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold

Peace, Experience, Quiet

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Biography

Nationality: Swedish

Born: July 29, 1905

Died: September 18, 1961

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