Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Men
  • Boat
  • Build