Top 46 Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

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

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

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

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.