Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

It took time for me to step away and become an independent thinker so that wherever I am in the world, I understand who I am and that nothing's impossible.

I think without struggle, you can't grow as a person - I think you need that in your life.

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

There's always a way to pull back and discredit ourselves, but once you just shut that out and start doing it, you realize things about yourself that you never thought were possible.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.

Cultivate the technique of seeing all problems as opportunities. Opportunities to...be, and decide, Who You Really Are.

We all have unfair situations and things we don't like. You can get bitter, discouraged and sour, or you can see it as fertilizer and say, “ This difficulty is not going to defeat me; it's going to promote me. It's not going to hinder me; it's going to help me.” Don't just go through it, grow through it.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.

Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.