Ayn Rand

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. 
Ayn Rand 
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. 
Ayn Rand 
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. 
Ayn Rand 

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. 
Ayn Rand 
Evil requires the sanction of the victim. 
Ayn Rand 


God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. 
Ayn Rand 


Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. 
Ayn Rand 






Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. 
Ayn Rand 
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. 
Ayn Rand 
Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. 
Ayn Rand 
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. 
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 


Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started. 
Ayn Rand 
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. 
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 
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. 
Ayn Rand 

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? 
Ayn Rand 

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. 
Ayn Rand 



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

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. 
Ayn Rand 

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. 
Ayn Rand 


There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. 
Ayn Rand 



Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. 
Ayn Rand 
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. 
Ayn Rand 
To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I." 
Ayn Rand 
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. 
Ayn Rand 
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. 
Ayn Rand 
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. 
Ayn Rand 
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. 
Ayn Rand