If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea

Quote by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Topics: Leadership Quotes, Longing Quotes, Motivation Quotes

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

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

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him...The land...

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him...The land...

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am...

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am...

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than...

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than...

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say...

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say...

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

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

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he...

They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he...

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being...

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being...

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis...

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis...

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the...

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the...

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent,...

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent,...

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds...

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds...

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is...

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is...

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century...

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century...

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when...

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when...

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always...

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always...