Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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• I never discuss discussions.

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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.

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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.

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

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Dag Hammarskjold (54)

Birth:	29th July, 1905
Death:	18th September, 1961
Nationality:	Swedish
Profession:	Diplomat, Economist

About

Dag Hammarskjold was born in Jönköping, Sweden. He was a Swedish diplomat and economist. The second Secretary-General of the United Nations, he served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. At the age of 47 years, 255 days, Hammarskjöld is the youngest to have held the post. He is one of only three people to be awarded a posthumous Nobel Prize. He studied first at Katedralskolan and then at Uppsala University. By 1930, he had obtained Licentiate of Philosophy and Master of Laws degrees. US President John F. Kennedy called Hammarskjöld "the greatest statesman of our century". He wrote his economics thesis, "Konjunkturspridningen", and received a doctorate from Stockholm University.

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