Ayn Rand: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 3)

“If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”

“Who is John Galt?”

“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you… Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”

“I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.”

“What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.”

“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”

“When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.”

“People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.”

“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”

“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.”

“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”

“There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.”

“Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!”

“If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.”

“Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.”

“Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.”

“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”

“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”

“She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness…”