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Effort Quotes by Ayn Rand
- The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
- A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by…
- A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own…
- You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island…
- Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To…
- They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his…
- I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.…
- Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no…
- The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other…
- A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or…
- To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to…
- The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality.…
- You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're…
- Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should…
- In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms…
- Francisco could do anything he undertook, he could do it better than anyone else, and he did it without effort. There was no boasting in…
- If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his…
- A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling…
More Effort Quotes
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material… — Julian Assange
- Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform.… — Julian Assange
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort,… — Charles Babbage
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort… — James A. Baldwin
- To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present… — James A. Baldwin
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. — Roger Bannister