Top 250 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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2. “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

4. “Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

7. “As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

8. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

9. “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.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

10. “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

11. “What makes the desert beautiful,? said the little prince, ’is that somewhere it hides a well...”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

12. “Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

14. “What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

15. “If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

16. “But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

17. “But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

18. “I am who I am and I have the need to be.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

19. “True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

20. “When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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22. “Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

24. “The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

26. “The essential is invisible to the eyes.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

27. “You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

28. “And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

29. “To live is to be slowly born.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

30. “True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived...”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

31. “Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

32. “It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

33. “If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

35. “It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

36. “It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

37. “One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

38. “The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

39. “That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it’s because you’re truly a wise man.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

40. “Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

41. “I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

42. “I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

44. “To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

46. “Language is the source of misunderstandings.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

47. “I was too young to know how to love her.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

48. “Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

49. “Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

50. “In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry