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: Perfection Quotes

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

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

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is...

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is...

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...

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if...

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if...

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...

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains...

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains...

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

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...

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

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...

Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.

Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.

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.

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete...

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete...

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,...

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...

'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...

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the...

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the...

The object of the superior man is truth.

The object of the superior man is truth.