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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes

French Novelist June 29, 1900 – July 31, 1944

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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
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 quote: "It is the time that you wasted for your rose that makes her so..."
It is the time that you wasted for your rose that makes her so important. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One must require from each one the duty with each one can perform," said the king. "Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. If you ordered your people to go and throw themselves into the sea, they would rise up in revolution. I have the right to require obedience because my orders are reasonable. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He is among those beings of great scope who spread their leafy branches willingly over broad horizons. To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to know shame at the sight of poverty which is not of our making. It is to be proud of a victory won by our comrades. It is to feel, as we place our stone, that we are contributing to the building of the world. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is..."
Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart."
But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart."
But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart. 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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory,..."
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
We understand? that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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