The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

—Dag Hammarskjöld

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Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld ( HAM-ər-shuuld; Swedish: [ˈdɑːɡ ˈhâmːarˌɧœld] ; 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. As of 2026,...

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

—Dag Hammarskjöld

The longest journey is the journey inward.

—Dag Hammarskjöld

For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.

—Dag Hammarskjöld

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

—Dag Hammarskjöld

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

—Dag Hammarskjöld

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

—Booker T. Washington

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity.

—Julie Garwood in Prince Charming

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To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man—these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity.… History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.

—Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

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