Dag Hammarskjold Quotes


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



Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. - Dag Hammarskjold



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. - Dag Hammarskjold



When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate. - Dag Hammarskjold