Author: Dag Hammarskjold

Quotes

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

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

- Dag Hammarskjold

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

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

- Dag Hammarskjold

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.

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.

- Dag Hammarskjold

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.

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.

- Dag Hammarskjold

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

- Dag Hammarskjold

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.

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.

- Dag Hammarskjold

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

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

- Dag Hammarskjold

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

- Dag Hammarskjold

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

- Dag Hammarskjold

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