Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart
Ayn Rand
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ayn Rand
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: February 2
Died: 1982
Died: March 6
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
St. Petersburg
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
Feel
Feels
Afterwards
Firsts
First
More quotes by Ayn Rand
Man is a being with free will therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.
Ayn Rand
It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.
Ayn Rand
Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
Ayn Rand
The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.
Ayn Rand
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.
Ayn Rand
There can be no compromise on moral principles.
Ayn Rand
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
Ayn Rand
She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek.
Ayn Rand
And man will go on. Man, not men.
Ayn Rand
I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!
Ayn Rand
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
Ayn Rand
You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're not interested in any of us or in anything we do. You think if you pay the bills, that's enough, don't you? Money! That's all you know. And all you give us is money. Have you even given us any time?
Ayn Rand
The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.
Ayn Rand
One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.
Ayn Rand
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
Ayn Rand
Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
Ayn Rand
I don’t approve of religion.
Ayn Rand
If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
Ayn Rand
What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word We.
Ayn Rand
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably the man who respects it has earned it.
Ayn Rand