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Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

Swedish - Diplomat | July 29, 1905 - September 18, 1961

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Nature Mountain You Measure Never

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Live Alone Great Loneliness Die You

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Destiny Brainy Choose Frame Our Put

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Good Attention Important Surgeon May

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.

Dag Hammarskjold

Step Eye Road Horizon Look Down

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Dag Hammarskjold

Time Reputation Time Goes By Ability

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.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life You Living Duty Others Never

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.

Dag Hammarskjold

Journey Destiny Him Source Quest

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

Dag Hammarskjold

Truth Support Truth Is Over Out

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Dag Hammarskjold

Death Road You Find Will Seek

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Me Party Dying Without Out Social

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Life Death Questions Analysis Us

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