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Dag Hammarskjold [1905-1961] Swedish

Rank: 101
Diplomat

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author, who served as the second secretary-general of the United Nations, from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961.

Peace, Strength, Alone, Brainy, Christmas, Death, Experience, Forgiveness, Freedom, Friendship, God, Great, Happiness, History, Nature, Time, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.	Alone, Great	101
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.	Nature	102
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.		103
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.	Experience, Peace	104
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.		105
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.	History	106
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.	God	107
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.		108
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.	Time	109
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.		110
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.	Peace	111
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.		112
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.		113
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.	Peace	114
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.	Christmas	115
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.	Friendship	116
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.	Truth	117
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.		118
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.		119
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.	Strength	120
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.	Brainy	121
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.		122
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.		123
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.		124
I never discuss discussions.		125
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.	Death	126
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?	Strength	201
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.		202
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.	Happiness	203
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.	Forgiveness	204
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.	Freedom	205
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.		206
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.		207
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.		208
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.		209
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.		210
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.		211
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.		212
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.		213
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.		214
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.		215
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.		216
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.		217
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.		218
Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.		219
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.		220
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.		221
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.		222

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