Action Quotes by Ayn Rand

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

— Ayn Rand

Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

— Ayn Rand

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

— Ayn Rand

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide…

— Ayn Rand

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing,…

— Ayn Rand

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

— Ayn Rand

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

— Ayn Rand

“A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.”

— Ayn Rand

Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the…

— Ayn Rand

You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead

— Ayn Rand

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

— Ayn Rand

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus…

— Ayn Rand

A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y…

— Ayn Rand

One's own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one's actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor…

— Ayn Rand

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply…

— Ayn Rand

I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not…

— Ayn Rand

Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires…

— Ayn Rand

[T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions,…

— Ayn Rand

Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a…

— Ayn Rand

Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are…

— Ayn Rand

I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love…

— Ayn Rand

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force…

— Ayn Rand

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him,…

— Ayn Rand

No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals…

— Ayn Rand

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

— Ayn Rand

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions…

— Ayn Rand

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced…

— Ayn Rand

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he…

— Ayn Rand

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob

— Ayn Rand

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the…

— Ayn Rand

My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to…

— Ayn Rand

The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented…

— Ayn Rand

An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of…

— Ayn Rand

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism…

— Ayn Rand

If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you…

— Ayn Rand

Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on…

— Ayn Rand

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is…

— Ayn Rand