Quotes By Dag Hammarskjold

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.

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

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

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

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

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

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

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.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

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.

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.

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.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

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.

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.

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

I never discuss discussions.