“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 Copy Share Image
I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to a joy that justifies the existence of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason - Purpose - Self-esteem. Reason,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In what act or thought of his has there ever been self? What was his aim in life? Greatness - in other… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“No. I am complying with the law—to the letter. Your law holds that my life, my work and my property may be… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Dagny, there’s nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “prove”) existence as such, or consciousness as such.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
