Inspirational Quotes by Ayn Rand

You love only those who deserve it.

— Ayn Rand

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

— Ayn Rand

All work is an act of philosophy.

— Ayn Rand

I am a man who does not exist for others.

— Ayn Rand

Great men can't be ruled.

— Ayn Rand

Never ask people about your work.

— Ayn Rand

It is not fools that I seek to address.

— Ayn Rand

A free mind and a free market are corollaries.

— Ayn Rand

I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

— Ayn Rand

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality

— Ayn Rand

I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

— Ayn Rand

Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate.

— Ayn Rand

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

— Ayn Rand

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

— Ayn Rand

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

— Ayn Rand

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

— Ayn Rand

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

— Ayn Rand

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

— Ayn Rand

“Life is achievement…Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind…

— Ayn Rand

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

— Ayn Rand

“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but…

— Ayn Rand

“Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and…

— Ayn Rand

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

— Ayn Rand

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

— Ayn Rand

Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither…

— Ayn Rand

“She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence.…

— Ayn Rand

“Why is it so important - what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being…

— Ayn Rand

“Wheeling his bicycle by his side, the boy took the narrow path down the slope of the hill to the valley and…

— Ayn Rand

“I think of man's magnificent capacity that created this ship to conquer all that senseless space. When I look at mountain peaks,…

— Ayn Rand

“Do not let the hero in your soul parish, in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved but never have been able…

— Ayn Rand

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by…

— Ayn Rand

“Rationality is man's basic virtue, the source of all his other virtues. Man's basic vice, the source of all evils, is the…

— Ayn Rand

“Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest…

— Ayn Rand

“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the…

— Ayn Rand

I don’t approve of religion.

— Ayn Rand

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

— Ayn Rand

Do not let your fire go out.

— Ayn Rand

Do not let the hero in your soul perish...

— Ayn Rand

“We are nothing mankind is all”

— Ayn Rand

I think, therefore I'll think.

— Ayn Rand