Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld; 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author. The second secretary-general of the United Nations, he served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. At the age of 56 years and 255 days, Hammarskjöld was the youngest to have held the post. He is one of only four people to be awarded a posthumous Nobel Prize. Hammarskjöld is the only UN secretary-general to...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 July 1905
CountrySweden
Dag Hammarskjold quotes about
It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.
Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
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.
Setbacks in trying to realize the ideal do not prove that the ideal is at fault.
We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.
For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.
The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.
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.
Perhaps a great love is never returned.
Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.
We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.