Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A goal without a plan is just a wish.

2. Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war. Night Flight

3. And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

4. Et moi, la nuit, lorsque je suis vainqueur, je remets à demain ma victoire. Citadelle

5. 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? The Little Prince

6. Good morning," said the little prince.Good morning," said the merchant.This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst. You need only swallow one pill a week, and you would feel no need for anything to drink.Why are you selling those?" asked the little prince.Because they save a tremendous amount of time," said the merchant. "Computations have been made by experts. With these pills, you save fifty-three minutes in every week."And what do I do with those fifty-three minutes?"Anything you like..."As for me," said the little prince to himself, "if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water. The Little Prince

7. I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...

8. 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... The Little Prince

9. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom. The Little Prince

10. It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. The Little Prince

11. Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction. Airman's Odyssey

12. Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Airman's Odyssey

13. 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. Manon, Ballerina

14. 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. The Little Prince

15. 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... The Little Prince

16. 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... The Little Prince

17. True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

18. Vivi muito tempo no mundo das pessoas grandes. Vi-as de bem perto.Não fiquei com muito melhor opinião delas. Le Petit Prince

19. Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. Le Petit Prince

20. Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. Le Petit Prince

21. 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. The Little Prince

22. 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. The Little Prince

23. But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you. The Little Prince

24. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them The Little Prince

25. 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.

26. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

27. It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. The Little Prince

28. Love is worth everything. EVERYTHING The Little Prince

29. Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends. The Little Prince

30. No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born. Flight to Arras