Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

Dag Hammarskjold
Swedish Diplomat
Born: Jul 29, 1905
Died: Sep 18, 1961
Life Loneliness Never Will World You
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. Dag Hammarskjold
Brainy Frame Our Destiny Ours Put Permitted Choose
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. Dag Hammarskjold
Alone Loneliness Great You Live Enough Finding Something Pray Spur Die May Your
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. Dag Hammarskjold
Freedom Rights Fear Human Rights Sum Philosophy Could Freedom From Said Up Human Whole
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. Dag Hammarskjold
Good Surgeon Important Nurse Constant Attention Major Operation May Just
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. Dag Hammarskjold
Nature You Will Top See Never Reached Until How Mountain Low Height Then Measure
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. Dag Hammarskjold
Peace Experience Own Convictions Never Sake Deny Quiet Your Peace And Quiet
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 Day Daily Believe Our Our Lives Deity Steady Beyond Renewed Does Source Cease Wonder Personal Die Which Radiance Reason Lives
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. Dag Hammarskjold
Yourself Diligently Give More Individual Noble Masses Labor Than Salvation
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship Loneliness Needs Solitude Words Anguish No Words Delivered
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 Burden Own My Own Only Bear Anguish No-One Share Makes
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. Dag Hammarskjold
World Insecurity Safe Create Utmost Play
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions. Dag Hammarskjold
Peace Convictions Never Sake Deny Quiet Your Peace And Quiet
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 Trials Progress Victory Few Defeat Relaxed Abandoned Pursuit Never Years End Errors Cannot Either Successes Setbacks
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 Duty Living Humiliated Others Only Gives Never Without Command Being Orders Your Right Receive Position
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. Dag Hammarskjold
World Insecurity Safe Create Utmost Playing
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
Will Before Down Right Road Eye Find Horizon Only Never He Step Road Taking Look Test His Fixed Far Next Your Next Step Ground Who Keeps Right
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 Longest Him His Source Quest Being Who Chosen Started
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. Dag Hammarskjold
You Better Will More Voices Outside Within Faithfully Hear Listen
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. Dag Hammarskjold
Death You Will Find Seek Road Makes Which Fulfillment
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. Dag Hammarskjold
Happiness Maturity Other He Takes His Child Granted Who Play Among Things
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 Made Dream Miracle Clean Answer Child Which Again Whole
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. Dag Hammarskjold
Busy More Leisure
I never discuss discussions. Dag Hammarskjold
Never Discuss Discussions
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 You Man Integrity Responsibility Duty Assume Part Becomes Task Suspect Essential Essential Part Which Moment

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