Ayn Rand Quotes About Life

• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Men, Order

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.404, Penguin

• To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• 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

  Life, Running, Fake People

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.316, Hamilton Books

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

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Happiness, Humor

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.99, Penguin

• What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Money, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1834, Penguin

• My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Philosophy, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.351, Penguin

• 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

  Love, Life, Character

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.98, Penguin

• For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Sacrifice, Self

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.96, Penguin

• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Relationship, Bad Ass

  Atlas Shrugged pt. 3, ch. 1 (1957)

• Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Life, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.109, Penguin

• I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Power, Needs

  Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.101, BookCaps Study Guides

• You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Happiness, Death

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.109, Penguin

• All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Life, Struggle

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.155, Penguin

• I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Time, Effectiveness

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.551, Hamilton Books

• Love is our response to our highest values.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Love Is, Response

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.376, Hamilton Books

• It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Courage, Betrayal

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.13, Penguin

• I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Rights, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.78, Penguin

• Live a life as a monument to your soul.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Motivation, Soul

• But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any random manner, but will perish unless he lives as his nature requires, so he is free to seek his happiness in any mindless fraud, but the torture of frustration is all he will find, unless he seeks the happiness proper to man. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Frustration, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.212, Penguin

• You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Reality, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.323, Penguin

• One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Hate, Men

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.421, Penguin

• Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Life, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.95, Penguin

• If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and ... if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse... I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Mean, Fighting

  "The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z".

• Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a life-long process — and the higher the values, the harder the struggle — he needs a moment, an hour or some period of time in which he can experience the sense of his completed task, the sense of living in a universe where his values have been successfully achieved.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Moving, Struggle

  "The Objectivist".

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