Ayn Rand Inspirational Quotes

#1. No gift is worth a damn, unless its the most precious thing you've got.

Ayn Rand

#2. I told her how frustrating it is to be a Christian in America, and how frustrated I am with not only the church's failures concerning human rights, but also my personal failure to contribute to the solution.

Donald Miller

#3. Please my niggas be mindful of the women you fuck over. They can be some spiteful, ungrateful ass bitches.

Mz. Lady P

#4. I think of man's magnificent capacity that created this ship to conquer all that senseless space. When I look at mountain peaks, I think of tunnels and dynamite. When I look at the planets, I think of airplanes

Ayn Rand

#5. He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.

Ayn Rand

#6. Blessed are those who do whatever they can wherever they are, for no one is devoid of resources or opportunities.

Daniel Quinn

#7. We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?

Ayn Rand

#8. Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand

#9. A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

Ayn Rand

#10. And suddenly that we were laughing out loud, laughing as if there were no power left in us save laughter.

Ayn Rand

#11. We are nothing mankind is all

Ayn Rand

#12. Nothing on earth or beyond it is closed to the power of man's reason.

Ayn Rand

#13. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

Ayn Rand

#14. The hours ahead, like all her nights with him, would be added, she thought, to that savings account of one's life where moments of time are stored in the pride of having been lived.

Ayn Rand

#15. Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
Dagny Taggart

Ayn Rand

#16. Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence - by his own choice.

Ayn Rand

#17. It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.

Sherrod Brown

#18. The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.

Hunter S. Thompson

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

Ayn Rand

#20. We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

Ayn Rand

#21. Do not let the hero in your soul parish, in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved but never have been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Ayn Rand

#22. Do not let the hero in your soul perish...

Ayn Rand

#23. Be persistent like a mosquito, at the end you will get your bite

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#24. She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted!

Ayn Rand

#25. 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

#26. Life is achievement ... Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind but your aim, all will, all concentration, and get it.

Ayn Rand