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“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.”

Ayn Rand

“When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.”

Ayn Rand

“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

Ayn Rand

“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”

Ayn Rand book The Romantic Manifesto

The Romantic Manifesto (1969)

“If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive?… Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Every loneliness is a pinnacle”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.”

Ayn Rand

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

“But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.”

Ayn Rand

“The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.”

Ayn Rand

Source: The Journals of Ayn Rand

“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”

Ayn Rand

Variant: We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

“Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.”

Ayn Rand

“Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.”

Ayn Rand

“She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.”

Ayn Rand

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

“Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“There can be no compromise on moral principles.”

Ayn Rand

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Variant: When I die I hope to go to heaven--whatever that is--and I want to be able to afford the price of admission.
Source: Atlas Shrugged