--- title: "9 Fuel Quotes By Ayn Rand" description: "9 Fuel quotes by Ayn Rand. Plus more from Ayn Rand and more Fuel sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/ayn-rand-59_dry_a-spirit-too-needs-fuel-it-can-run-dry-2_2347773.jpg" --- > [A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/a-spirit-too-needs-fuel-it-can-run-dry/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/ayn-rand-59_dry_a-spirit-too-needs-fuel-it-can-run-dry-2_2347773.jpg) > [Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/romantic-art-is-the-fuel-and-the-spark-plug-of-a-man-s-soul-it-s-task/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cd/ayn-rand-59_art_romantic-art-is-the-fuel-and-the-spark-p_651529.jpg) > [Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/emotions-are-inherent-in-your-nature-but-their-content-is-dictated-by/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f2/ayn-rand-59_capacity_emotions-are-inherent-in-your-nature-but_323962.jpg) > [I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/i-want-it-real-i-want-to-know-that-there-is-someone-somewhere-who/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d4/ayn-rand-59_burning_i-want-it-real-i-want-to-know-that-there_2476675.jpg) > [Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/your-emotional-capacity-is-an-empty-motor-and-your-values-are-the/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/986/ayn-rand-59_capacity_your-emotional-capacity-is-an-empty-moto_995124.jpg) > [I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/i-love-you-dominique-as-selfishly-as-the-fact-that-i-exist-as/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b33/ayn-rand-59_air_i-love-you-dominique-as-selfishly-as-the_1719782.jpg) > [Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a life-long process — and the higher…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/since-a-rational-man-s-ambition-is-unlimited-since-his-pursuit-and/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ef/ayn-rand-59_achievement_since-a-rational-man-s-ambition-is-unlim_785082.jpg) > [A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/a-chronic-lack-of-pleasure-of-any-enjoyable-rewarding-or-stimulating/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a53/ayn-rand-59_causes_a-chronic-lack-of-pleasure-of-any-enjoya_2432702.jpg) > [Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a lifelong process - and the higher…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/since-a-rational-man-s-ambition-is-unlimited-since-his-pursuit-and-2/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/ayn-rand-59_achievement_since-a-rational-man-s-ambition-is-unlim_2547303.jpg) ## Other authors on Fuel ## More by Ayn Rand > [There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-are-no-white-lies-there-is-only-the-blackest-of-destruction-and/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-watched-the-prairies-the-rivers-the-towns-slipping-past-at-an/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-was-reality-she-thought-this-sense-of-clear-outlines-of-purpose/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/a-collective-mind-does-not-exist-it-is-merely-the-sum-of-endless/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/lobbying-is-the-activity-of-attempting-to-influence-legislation-by/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-moved-her-hand-and-let-it-rest-against-his-he-did-not-withdraw/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-miracle-of-me-is-mine-to-own-and-keep-and-mine-to-guard-and-mine/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-was-still-one-response-the-greatest-that-she-had-missed-she/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/inflation-is-not-caused-by-the-actions-of-private-citizens-but-by-the/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/we-are-fornicating-in-the-sight-of-six-billion-people/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-was-fifteen-when-it-occurred-to-her-for-the-first-time-that-women/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/fransisco-you-re-some-kind-of-very-high-nobility-aren-t-you-he/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/have-you-felt-it-too-have-you-seen-how-your-best-friends-love/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/every-coercive-monopoly-was-created-by-government-intervention-into/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/we-are-all-brothers-under-the-skin-and-i-for-one-would-be-willing-to/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fuel/ayn-rand/#itemlist", "name": "9 Fuel Quotes By Ayn Rand", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A spirit, too, needs fuel. 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