Quotes from Dag Hammarskjold
Each day the first day: Each day a life.
- Dag Hammarskjold
On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.
- Dag Hammarskjold
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
- Dag Hammarskjold
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
- Dag Hammarskjold
The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents, which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them
- Dag Hammarskjold
Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.
- 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.
- Dag Hammarskjold
It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
- 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 again made clean.
- Dag Hammarskjold