Dag Hammarskjold Quotes about Life

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

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Love, Life, Relationship

"Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1982.

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Life, Strength, Being Strong

You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life, Learning, Knowledge

"Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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, Leadership, Order

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, Wisdom

"Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Life, Inspiration, Fate

Markings (1964)

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

Dag Hammarskjold

Love, Life, Relationship

"Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life, Growing Up, Attitude

"Know Your Limits - Then Ignore Them". Book by John Mason, 2000.

Smiling, sincere, incorruptible - His body disciplined and limber. A man who had become what he could, And was what he was- Ready at any moment to gather everything Into one simple sacrifice.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life, Sacrifice, Simple