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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes



Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery - (40 quotes)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Activity category:

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Adventure category:

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Attitude category:

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Beauty category:

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Children category:

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Communication category:

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures - in this century as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Construction category:

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Conviction category:

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering? (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Courage category:

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Design category:

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Earth category:

The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Effort category:

The one thing that matters is the effort. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Ego category:

- The Little Prince...
I am who I am and I have the need to be. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Fear category:

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Freedom category:

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Friendship category:

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Generosity category:

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Generosity category:

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Happiness category:

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Imagination category:

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Joy category:

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Leadership category:

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, 'I was beaten,' he does not say, 'My men were beaten.' (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Life category:

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Love category:

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Love category:

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Meaning category:

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Perfection category:

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Planning category:

A goal without a plan is just a wish. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Possessions category:

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become – to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Problems category:

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Progress category:

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Quality category:

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Recognition category:

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Responsibility category:

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Sadness category:

It is such a secret place, the land of tears. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Seeing category:

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Technology category:

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Travel category:

He who would travel happily must travel light. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Words category:

- The Little Prince...
I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)