Top 48 Quotes by Dag Hammarskjold

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

The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

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

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

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

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

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

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.

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

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.