Ayn Rand Quotes about Achievement

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Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies by division. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be

Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies by division. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

Heart, Hands, Achievement

It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.

Ayn Rand

Achievement, Lucky, Rotten

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.551, Penguin

Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

Ayn Rand

Giving, Achievement, Fountainhead

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.399, Penguin

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

Ayn Rand

Loneliness, Achievement, Mind

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.348, Penguin

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

Ayn Rand

Thinking, Self, Achievement

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.578, Penguin

Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.

Ayn Rand

Expression, Achievement, Desire

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1891, Penguin

She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.

Ayn Rand

Communication, Sight, Achievement

Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.176, Penguin