Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

Wisdom

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

Wisdom

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

Wisdom

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

Success

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

Wisdom

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

Wisdom

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

Courage

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Success

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

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

Wisdom

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

Courage

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

Hope

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

Wisdom

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

Wisdom

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Wisdom

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.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Life

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

Wisdom

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

Wisdom

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

Life

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