Quotes by Aviators - Page 6

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
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 Exupery
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
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 Exupery
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...They don't find it," I answered.And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."Of course," I answered.And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...
Antoine De Saint Exupery
it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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 Exupery
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Please-tame me!' he said.'I want to, very much,' the little prince replied. 'But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.''One only understands the things that one tames,' said the fox. 'Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.''What must I do, to tame you?' asked the little prince.'You must be very patient,' replied the fox. 'First you will sit down at a little distance from me-like that-in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day...
Antoine De Saint Exupery
I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...
Antoine De Saint Exupery
For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?
Antoine De Saint Exupery
When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
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 Exupery
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 Exupery
You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint Exupery