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Ayn Rand Quotes about Life

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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.

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.

Life, Running, Fake People

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

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.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Inspirational, Life, Struggle

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

Life, Philosophy, Men

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

Life, Money, Novelists

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

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.

Life, Men, Order

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

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

Life, Happiness, Humor

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

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

Life, Happiness, Death

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

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

Life, Motivation, Soul

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.

Life, Relationship, Bad Ass

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

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

Love, Inspirational, Life

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.

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.

Life, Sacrifice, Self

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

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

Life, Time, Effectiveness

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

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Inspirational, Life, Rights

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

Love is our response to our highest values.

Life, Love Is, Response

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

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.

Life, Reality, Men

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

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Life, Hymns, Snow

Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.436, Penguin

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

Life, Power, Needs

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

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.

Life, Moving, Struggle

"The Objectivist".

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

Life, Hate, Men

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

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.

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.

Life, Rights, Novelists

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

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

Life, Death, Bad Ass

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.783, Penguin

I think. I am. I will.

Life, Thinking

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