{"id":6551,"date":"2016-05-13T14:14:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=6551"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:14:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:14:33","slug":"Famous_Quotes_by_Dag_Hammarskjold_30_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=6551","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold (30 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"
1905-1961, Swedish Statesman, Secretary-general of U.N.<\/b><\/div>\n
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''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.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Forgiveness<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Integrity<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Friends and Friendship<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness — by making the ultimate escape from life. — No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Fatigue<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Friendship needs no words…<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Friends and Friendship<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I don't know Who — or what — put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone –or Something –and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Enlightenment<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Death and Dying<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Action<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Death and Dying<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Approval<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Risk<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Courage<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Conquest<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Maturity<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Peace<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Goals<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Possibilities<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Critics and Criticism<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Purpose<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Dag Hammarskjold – [Purpose<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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