“Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The month behind her had gone, leaving nothing but the blank of dead time. It had gone into the planless, thankless work… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's value.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a life-long process — and the higher… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Every achievement of man is a value in itself, but it is also a stepping-stone to greater achievements and values. Life is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“When we gaze at the magnificence of an ancient monument and ascribe its achievement to one man, we are guilty of spiritual… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Here’s another. Kill man’s sense of values. Kill his capacity to recognise greatness or to achieve it. Great men can’t be ruled.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Miss Taggart, do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“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
“People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“You are so lost to your higher self that you would resent me for my achievements, rather than celebrate them with me,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a lifelong process - and the higher… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Let anyone who believes that a high standard of living is the achievement of labor unions and government controls ask himself the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Into what bottomless, future-less sewer of the unpaid-for? Here, we trade achievements, not failures - values, not needs. We're free of one… — 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
