Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. May her quotes inspire you to take action on your dreams.
1. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” Ayn Rand
2. “Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.” Ayn Rand
3. “Any alleged right of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another isn’t and can’t be a right.” Ayn Rand
4. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” Ayn Rand
5. “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” Ayn Rand
6. “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” Ayn Rand
7. “An individualist is a man who says: I will not run anyone’s life – nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone – nor sacrifice anyone to myself.” Ayn Rand
8. “An inventor is a man who asks Why? of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.” Ayn Rand
9. “I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in between.” Ayn Rand
10. “Freedom: To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.” Ayn Rand
11. “The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.” Ayn Rand
12. “The truth is not for all men, but for those who seek it.” Ayn Rand
13. “I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.” Ayn Rand
14. “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” Ayn Rand
15. “The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.” Ayn Rand
16. “If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.” Ayn Rand
17. “The businessman’s tool is value.” Ayn Rand
18. “Love is the expression of one’s values.” Ayn Rand
19. “Worry is a waste of emotional reserve.” Ayn Rand
20. “To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.” Ayn Rand
21. “The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” Ayn Rand
22. “Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.” Ayn Rand
23. “Pain is not be accepted as part of one’s soul and as a permanent scar across one’s view of existence.” Ayn Rand
24. “From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man – the function of his reasoning mind.” Ayn Rand
25. “Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.” Ayn Rand
26. “Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose.” Ayn Rand
27. “Every man is free to rise as far as he’s able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he’ll rise.” Ayn Rand
28. “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.” Ayn Rand
29. “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being.” Ayn Rand
30. “Do not let your fire go out. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in the lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your riad and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.” Ayn Rand
31. “Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.” Ayn Rand
32. “Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.” Ayn Rand
33. “Man survives by adjusting his background to himself.” Ayn Rand
34. “Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.” Ayn Rand
35. “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
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