“One loses everything when one loses one’s sense of humor.” ― Ayn Rand
“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.” ― Ayn Rand
“If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.” ― Ayn Rand
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” ― Ayn Rand
“When I die I hope to go to heaven–whatever that is–and I want to be able to afford the price of admission.” ― Ayn Rand
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.” ― Ayn Rand
“Don’t think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don’t think. Feel. Believe.” ― Ayn Rand
“The most depraved type of human being is the man without a purpose.” ― Ayn Rand
“I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.” ― Ayn Rand
“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” ― Ayn Rand
“Worry is a waste of emotional reserve.” ― Ayn Rand
“Freedom: To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.” ― Ayn Rand
“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
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” ― Ayn Rand
“Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose.” ― Ayn Rand
“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
“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.” ― Ayn Rand
“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
“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.” ― Ayn Rand
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being.” ― Ayn Rand
“To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’” ― Ayn Rand
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.” ― Ayn Rand
“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.” ― Ayn Rand
“Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.” ― Ayn Rand
“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” ― Ayn Rand
“If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.” ― Ayn Rand
“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
“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.” ― Ayn Rand
“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” ― Ayn Rand
“Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.” ― Ayn Rand
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” ― Ayn Rand
“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” ― Ayn Rand
“The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.” ― Ayn Rand
“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
“The businessman’s tool is value.” ― Ayn Rand
“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.” ― Ayn Rand
“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.” ― Ayn Rand
“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.” ― Ayn Rand
“The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.” ― Ayn Rand
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all.” ― Ayn Rand
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.” ― Ayn Rand
“Man survives by adjusting his background to himself.” ― Ayn Rand
“An inventor is a man who asks Why? of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.” ― Ayn Rand
“The truth is not for all men, but for those who seek it.” ― Ayn Rand
“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.” ― Ayn Rand
“Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.” ― Ayn Rand
“Pain is not be accepted as part of one’s soul and as a permanent scar across one’s view of existence.” ― Ayn Rand
“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
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” ― Ayn Rand
“Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.” ― Ayn Rand
