Antoine de Saint Exupéry quotes - page 2

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
To be a man is to be responsible: to be ashamed of miseries you did not cause; to be proud of your comrades' victories; to be aware, when setting one stone, that you are building a world.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.
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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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Of course I'll hurt you. Of course you'll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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 Exupéry
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
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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.
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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.
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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 Exupéry
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
No one is ever satisfied where he is.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.
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The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.
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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.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
"I swear that what I went through, no animal would have gone through." This sentence, the noblest ever spoken, this sentence that defines man's place in the universe, that honors him, that re-establishes the true hierarchy, floated back into my thoughts. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
If you wish to build a ship, do not divide the men into teams and send them to the forest to cut wood. Instead, teach them to long for the vast and endless sea.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Every nation is selfish and every nation considers its selfishness sacred.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. These prison walls that this age of trade has built up round us, we can break down. We can still run free, call to our comrades, and marvel to hear once more, in response to our call, the impassioned chant of the human voice.
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