Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Biography | Inspiration Quotations | Motivation Quotes

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Motivational Quotations:

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

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

•  “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.”

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

•  “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”

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

  

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

•  “The one thing that matters is the effort.”

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

•  “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.”

•  “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.”

• “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.”

•  “Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”

• “You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”

•  “Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”

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

•  “It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.”

•  “I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.”

  

   

• “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.”

•  “It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

•  “Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.”

•  “Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?”

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

•  “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.”

•  “Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown,  that terror becomes the known.”

•  “Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”

•  “He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.”

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

•  “The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.”

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

•  “The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.”

• “A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'”

•  “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.”

• “War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.”