Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.
– Ayn Rand
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
– Ayn Rand
A man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.
– Ayn Rand
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
– Ayn Rand
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
– Ayn Rand
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
– Ayn Rand
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
– 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
The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.
– 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
Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious.
– Ayn Rand
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
– Ayn Rand
The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
– Ayn Rand
I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
– Ayn Rand
A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.
– Ayn Rand
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
– Ayn Rand
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
– Ayn Rand
If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
– Ayn Rand
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
– Ayn Rand
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
– Ayn Rand
But you see, the measure of hell you’re able to endure is the measure of your love.
– Ayn Rand
Love is our response to our highest values, and can be nothing else.
– Ayn Rand
Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
– Ayn Rand
The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
– Ayn Rand
Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
– 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
To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
– Ayn Rand
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
– Ayn Rand
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.
– Ayn Rand
There can be no compromise on moral principles.
– Ayn Rand
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.
– Ayn Rand
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
– Ayn Rand
But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.
– Ayn Rand
Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
– Ayn Rand
Never ask people about your work.
– Ayn Rand
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
– Ayn Rand
Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.
– Ayn Rand
I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
– Ayn Rand
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
– Ayn Rand
Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
– Ayn Rand
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
– Ayn Rand
The argument from intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
– Ayn Rand
Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont.
– Ayn Rand
Don’t think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don’t think. Feel. Believe.
– Ayn Rand
If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
– Ayn Rand
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
– Ayn Rand