Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched". — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in… — 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
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
No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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.… — 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
