Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wisdom

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Happiness

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love

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

Success

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wisdom

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

Success

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wisdom

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

Love

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

Wisdom

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truth

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Success

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.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wisdom

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wisdom

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wisdom

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wisdom

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life

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

Life

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wisdom

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wisdom

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love

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.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wisdom