Dag Hammarskjold Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

19 Famous Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold
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“The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.”
Apathy Quotes
“Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions”
Conviction Quotes
“The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.”
Indifference Quotes
“I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is the answer to everything, but I'm tired of being alone.”
Loneliness Quotes
“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.”
Medicine Quotes
Source: News Summaries, Mar. 18.1956
“Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.”
Friendship Quotes
“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.”
Peace Quotes
“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 again made clean.”
Children Quotes
“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 his right road.”
Goals Quotes
“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.”
Lonliness Quotes
“Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possible -- not to have run away.”
Strength Quotes
“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.”
Yield Quotes
“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.”
Christianity Quotes
“Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.”
Christianity Quotes
“He who has surrendered himself to it knows that the Way ends on the Cross -- even when it is leading him through the jubilation of Gennesaret or the triumphal entry into Jerusalem.”
Christianity Quotes
“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”
Death / immortality Quotes
“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”
Death / immortality Quotes
“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”
Nature Quotes
“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.”
Peace Quotes