Quotes By Dag Hammarskjold

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

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.

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

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

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

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

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

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

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

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

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.

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

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.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

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

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.