--- title: "12 Oneself Quotes By Ayn Rand" description: "12 Oneself quotes by Ayn Rand. Plus more from Ayn Rand and more Oneself sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4f/ayn-rand-59_achievement_it-is-easier-to-donate-a-few-thousand-to_1327495.jpg" --- > [It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/it-is-easier-to-donate-a-few-thousand-to-charity-and-think-oneself/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4f/ayn-rand-59_achievement_it-is-easier-to-donate-a-few-thousand-to_1327495.jpg) > [If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/if-one-doesn-t-respect-oneself-one-can-have-neither-love-nor-respect/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a06/ayn-rand-59_ethics_if-one-doesn-t-respect-oneself-one-can-h_3098907.jpg) > [One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/one-must-never-allow-oneself-to-acquire-an-exaggerated-sense-of-one-s/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d98/ayn-rand-59_burden_one-must-never-allow-oneself-to-acquire_1149011.jpg) > [She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-thought-how-strange-it-would-be-if-she-ever-said-hello-to-him-one/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/560/ayn-rand-59_hello_she-thought-how-strange-it-would-be-if-s_3008184.jpg) > [To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/to-arrive-at-a-contradiction-is-to-confess-an-error-in-one-s-thinking/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73a/ayn-rand-59_contradiction_to-arrive-at-a-contradiction-is-to-confe_1602012.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) > [Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/altruism-declares-that-any-action-taken-for-the-benefit-of-others-is/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b88/ayn-rand-59_action_altruism-declares-that-any-action-taken_601191.jpg) > [People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/people-think-that-a-liar-gains-a-victory-over-his-victim-what-i-ve/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f61/ayn-rand-59_abdication_people-think-that-a-liar-gains-a-victory_769365.jpg) > [Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/judge-not-that-ye-be-not-judge-is-an-abdication-of-moral/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e6/ayn-rand-59_abdication_judge-not-that-ye-be-not-judge-is-an-abd_342968.jpg) > [Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/rationalization-is-a-cover-up-a-process-of-providing-one-s-emotions/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8de/ayn-rand-59_attempting_rationalization-is-a-cover-up-a-process_1871262.jpg) > [There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-can-be-no-compromise-between-freedom-and-government-controls-to/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d14/ayn-rand-59_accepting_there-can-be-no-compromise-between-freed_641405.jpg) > [It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/it-s-easy-to-run-to-others-it-s-so-hard-to-stand-on-one-s-own-record/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff5/ayn-rand-59_achievement_it-s-easy-to-run-to-others-it-s-so-hard_2357403.jpg) ## Other authors on Oneself ## 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/oneself/ayn-rand/#itemlist", "name": "12 Oneself Quotes By Ayn Rand", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ayn Rand" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/it-is-easier-to-donate-a-few-thousand-to-charity-and-think-oneself/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4f/ayn-rand-59_achievement_it-is-easier-to-donate-a-few-thousand-to_1327495.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4f/ayn-rand-59_achievement_it-is-easier-to-donate-a-few-thousand-to_1327495.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4f/ayn-rand-59_achievement_it-is-easier-to-donate-a-few-thousand-to_1327495.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on…” — Ayn Rand", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ayn Rand" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/if-one-doesn-t-respect-oneself-one-can-have-neither-love-nor-respect/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a06/ayn-rand-59_ethics_if-one-doesn-t-respect-oneself-one-can-h_3098907.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a06/ayn-rand-59_ethics_if-one-doesn-t-respect-oneself-one-can-h_3098907.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a06/ayn-rand-59_ethics_if-one-doesn-t-respect-oneself-one-can-h_3098907.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.” — Ayn Rand", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. 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The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one's cognitive faculty. 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