Antoine De Saint-exupery Motivational Quotes

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

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

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

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.

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

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

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

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

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.

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.

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 aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

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

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.

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

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