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Self Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish…
- When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to…
- I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which…
- You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.
- If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If…
- Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.
- What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.
- Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do…
- I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on…
- Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.
- When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
- If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in…
- There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.
- The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.
- No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are…
- 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 and the self-confidence…
- The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may…
- The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism,…
- One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “proveâ€) existence as such, or consciousness as such. These are irreducible…
- [Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden