Ayn Rand (February 2 1905 – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism.
Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge and rejected faith and religion. Today, her books have sold in the millions, and she’s the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary, a U.S. postage stamp, university courses, and a philosophical society devoted to the study of her thought.
Read below some famous Quotes of Ayn Rand.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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.
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.
To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
