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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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