Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes & Sayings

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

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

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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