Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French Novelist
Born: Jun 29, 1900
Died: Jul 31, 1944
Heart Love Man Men Only You
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Heart Rightly Eye See Only Invisible Essential
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
Work You People Long Build Immensity Collect Rather Drum Ship Up Tasks Endless Wood Want Them Teach Sea Assign
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love Together Looking Other Gazing Consist Direction Outward Does Same Same Direction Each
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Happiness Joy True Happiness True New Well Well Done Done Creating Deeds Zest Things
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nothing Add More Take Perfection Left Achieved Away
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Time Too Late Never Too Late Action Too Late Something Never Now
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
Self-Respect Man Respect Eyes Human Being Matters Own Think Say He Sin Him Undermine Himself His Human Being Anything Right Thinks
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
Heart Simple Secret Rightly Eye See Only Invisible Very Essential Now Here
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 True Love You Love Is Water Draw Give More True Abundant Inexhaustible Go Flow
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Attitude Our Lies Towards Them Meaning Meaning Of Themselves Things
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
Never Understand Always Forever Children Anything Tiresome Explaining Them Themselves Grown-Ups Things
The one thing that matters is the effort. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Matters One Thing Effort The One Thing Thing
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
Man Creative Victory Action High Finds Adventure Joys Supreme His Zest Compelling
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
Nothing Design Add Take He Perfection Knows Left Achieved Away Designer
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
Day Man Words Important Calm Tree Fragmentary Analysis Alive Destructive Self Fade Come Becomes Sound His Truly Done Again Whole Grows Things Beloved Night
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Wisdom You Yourself Give More Than Receive
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
Man Single Imagination Bearing Cathedral Him Within Pile Single Man Rock Ceases Moment Image
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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Knowledge Man Somewhere Difficult Heritage Distance Logic Slowly Civilization Lead Open Since Course His Up Times Accumulate Paths Justify Justifying Centuries Customs Themselves Beliefs Elements Inner
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
You Man Saves Take Step Another Always Same Then
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man Men Unknown Once Faced Only Known Terror Becomes Frighten
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man Responsible Be A Man Precisely
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Great Nature Technology Man Problems Machine More Him Does Isolate Them Deeply
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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Thankful God Gratitude Charity Gift Made Humiliated Never Bound Since Him Nor Who Chains Ever
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 Beautiful Heart Will Country Farm Only Shall Struggled Sacrificed He Part Make Himself Understand His Then Who Fill Fought Save
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Face Earth True Unveiled Us
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Freedom Mind Know
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