Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Responsible
Man
Precisely
Related Quotes:
" 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
Victory
Man
High
" Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Body
Away
Anything
" The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Our
Things
Lies
" Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering? "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Worth
Bring
Convictions
" The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
True
Us
Face
" Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Always
Children
Understand
" Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You
Love
Me
" A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Which
Built
Them
" It is such a secret place, the land of tears. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Land
Place
Secret
" 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. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Farm
Love
Heart
" Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Only
Life
Meaning
" Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Him
Look
Man
" Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Away
Perfection
Nothing
" A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Left
Nothing
Perfection
" 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. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Self-Respect
Think
Respect
" 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
You
People
Long
" 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. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Question
Last
How
" Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Men
Known
Man
" Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Men
Only
Unknown
" True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Done
Happiness
Joy
" It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Eye
Truth
Invisible
" 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-Exupery
Simple
Eye
Invisible
" 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-Exupery
Same
Take
You
" The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Now
Time
Never Too Late
" I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Freedom
Know
Mind
" You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Become
Responsible
Forever
" When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You
Give
Than
" The one thing that matters is the effort. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One Thing
Effort
Matters
" A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Distance
Heritage
Open
" 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. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Speak
Say
Nothing