Ayn Rand Quotes About Self Esteem

• What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Greatness, Three

  Playboy Interview, March, 1964.

• Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Honor, Action

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.219, Penguin

• A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Men, Giving

• The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Self Worth, Men

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.29, Penguin

• To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone

  Ayn Rand

  Selfish, Self Esteem, Love Is

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.29, Penguin

• 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

  Love, Selfish, Self Esteem

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.41, Penguin

• Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the self-confidence of a con man are not interchangeable states, and do not come from the same psychological universe. The success of a man who deals with reality augments his self-confidence. The success of a con man augments his panic.

  Ayn Rand

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Men

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

• In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Reality, Men

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.33, Penguin

• No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Fighting, Soul

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.143, Penguin

• The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

  Ayn Rand

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Men

  AYN RAND “THE NEW LEFT: THE ANTI-INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION”

• There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Reason

  AYN RAND “THE NEW LEFT: THE ANTI-INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION”

• The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Men, Selfishness

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.10, Penguin

• There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.

  Ayn Rand

  Honesty, Integrity, Self Esteem

• Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the faculty that makes it possible. You will see that man is not a helpless monster by nature, but he becomes one when he discards that faculty: his mind. And if you ask me, what is greatness? I will answer, it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Greatness, Men

• A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Independent, Men

• If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in any moral issue: the argument from self-esteem. Check your premises, convince yourself of the rightness of your cause, then fight for capitalism with full, moral certainty.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Fighting, Issues

• Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Reliance

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.446, Penguin

• Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Men

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