kwize
login
Quote of the day
|
Authors
|
Topics
|
Sources
Ayn Rand quotes
English
(96)
Français
(85)
edits
filters
view all 96 quotes
“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 to live for mine.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you—except the things that count?”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“I've chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I'm only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my...”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“What is morality? . . . Judgment to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“Katie, why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world—to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we...”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“Within the extent of your knowledge, . . . you are right.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“I'd want it real. I'd take no pride in any hopeless longing. I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“Never ask people. Not about your work.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“the measure of the hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it— the total passion for the total height—you're incapable of anything less.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me—not even you. Can you understand that? Only my love—not your answer. Not even your indifference.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“there's no such thing as a lousy job—only lousy men who don't care to do it.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end.”
Ayn Rand
,
Anthem
“the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“To place nothing—nothing—above the verdict of my own mind.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“The man who lies to the world, is the world's slave from then on”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“We are all brothers under the skin-and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust, but to know.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“To say 'I love you’ one must know first how to say the ’I.’”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“Every loneliness is a pinnacle.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“It's so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.”
Ayn Rand
,
Anthem
“Worry is a waste of emotional reserves.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves—or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. I am a man.”
Ayn Rand
,
Anthem
“We waste our energy fighting one another, instead of presenting a common front to the world.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven. But not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“It is not advisable . . . to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
“it's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything.”
Ayn Rand
,
The Fountainhead
view all 96 quotes
Related topics
love
self
freedom
independence
happiness
work
sacrifice
life
pain
money
passion
respect
servitude
knowledge
courage
desire
greatness
genius
others
individuality
Related sources
The Fountainhead
(53)
Atlas Shrugged
(39)
Anthem
(4)
Follow Kwize on Facebook!
Choose the picture:
Follow Kwize on Pinterest!
Choose the picture:
<< Back >>
