Life Quotes by Ayn Rand

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

— Ayn Rand

I think. I am. I will.

— Ayn Rand

“To a life; which is reason unto itself.”

— Ayn Rand

Love is our response to our highest values.

— Ayn Rand

I think, therefore I'll think.

— Ayn Rand

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

— Ayn Rand

We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

— Ayn Rand

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

— Ayn Rand

“What I've got to offer you is your life.' 'It's not yours to offer...”

— Ayn Rand

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

— Ayn Rand

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

— Ayn Rand

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

— Ayn Rand

Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

— Ayn Rand

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own…

— Ayn Rand

If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one…

— 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

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor…

— 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

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an…

— Ayn Rand

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

— Ayn Rand

In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose...

— Ayn Rand

Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true…

— Ayn Rand

“Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe…

— Ayn Rand

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive…

— Ayn Rand

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an…

— 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

We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme…

— Ayn Rand

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom…

— Ayn Rand

I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good…

— Ayn Rand

“There's something I would like to understand. And I don't think anyone can explain it. . . There's your life. You begin…

— Ayn Rand

“a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and…

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“It is not in the nature of man--nor of any living entity--to start out by giving up, by spitting in one's own…

— 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

“to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions…

— 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

“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without…

— Ayn Rand

The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to…

— Ayn Rand

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

— Ayn Rand

“Your fear of death is not a love for life. . .”

— Ayn Rand

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

— Ayn Rand