Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

Swedish - Diplomat July 29, 1905 - September 18, 1961

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Nature, Mountain, You, Never, Height

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

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Alone, Loneliness, Great, Live, You, Die

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

Journey, Destiny, Him, Source, Quest

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

Look, Step, Eye, Road, Down, Horizon

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Peace, Never, Your, Quiet, Convictions

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Good, Important, Attention, Surgeon, May

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.

Dag Hammarskjold

Shadow, Decision, Back, Always, Paradise

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

Day, God, Daily, Believe, Die, Personal

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

Dag Hammarskjold

World, Insecurity, Create, Playing, Safe

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Dag Hammarskjold

Time, Reputation, Time Goes By, Ability

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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.

Dag Hammarskjold

Yourself, More, Noble, Labor, Than, Give

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

Dag Hammarskjold

God, I Am, Vessel, Thirsty, Draft, Am

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

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Grow, Only, May, Quieter, Simpler

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Peace, Experience, Never, Quiet, Own

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Freedom, Fear, Philosophy, Human Rights

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, Moment, Man, Integrity, You, Duty

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Dag Hammarskjold

Nothing, Praise, Your, Up, Critics, Whom

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

Me, Party, Dying, Without, Function, Out

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life, You, Accept, Never, Giving, Living

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

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Destiny, Brainy, Choose, Frame, Our, Put

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship, Loneliness, Words, Solitude

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, Victory, Progress, End, Never

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, My Own, Burden, Only, Own

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Life, Strength, You, Run, Only, Possible

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, You, Never, Without, Duty, Living

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life, Vision, Small, You, Hands, Grow

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