Ayn Rand Quotes About Inspirational
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Never ask people about your work.
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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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I think, therefore I'll think.
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Because, you see, God - whatever anyone chooses to call God - is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.
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But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.
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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.
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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
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The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
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Do not let the hero in your soul perish.
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The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
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every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
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The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.
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If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
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Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.
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He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.
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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
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If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
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Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
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Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
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