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

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You...

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You...

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood...

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood...

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates...

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates...

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the...

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the...

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live...

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live...

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course...

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course...

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is...

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is...

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

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...

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the...

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the...

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...

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...

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.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who...

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who...

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror...

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror...

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the...

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the...

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood...

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood...

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to...

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to...

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is...

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is...

Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're...

Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're...

First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did...

First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did...