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Best Self Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your…
- I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man…
- People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one…
- Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.
- Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to…
- In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to…
- The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.
- We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned…
- A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his…
- There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his…
- You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.
- The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and…
- 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. You can't fake…
- A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack
- Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
- I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They…
- For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs…
- To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only…
- Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".
- Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows…
- To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that…
- 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 will hate your…
- She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure…
- ""Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If…
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
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster