Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold

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

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.

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

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

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

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.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

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

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.