"Value is that which one acts to gain……" — Ayn Rand

"Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it."

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838 Quotes by Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand has 838 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love…
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to…
I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.
Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea…
Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the…
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept…
Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale…
Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch…
Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One…
Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to…

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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