Famous Antoine De Saint Exupéry Quotations

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"When you give yourself, you receive more than you give."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten'."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You--you alone have the stars as no one else has them"
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"He who would travel happily must travel light."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"One man may hit the mark, another blunder but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"'Men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You remain responsible forever for what you have tamed.'"
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"The moral? Don't hesitate to throw away superannuated features when you can do it without loss of effectiveness. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (who was an aviator and aircraft designer when he wasn't being the author of classic children's books) said:"
by Anonymous
"He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"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."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"In anything at all, perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"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."
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures"
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"When the body sinks into death, the essense of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those rel..."
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


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