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I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

Ayn Rand
Pride, Want, Hopeless
Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.357, Penguin

And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.

Ayn Rand
Pride, Men, Joy
Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.47, Xist Publishing

Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth

Ayn Rand
Fighting, Pride, Men
Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work, pride is the result.

Ayn Rand
Work, Pride, Men
Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.23, Penguin

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

Ayn Rand
Pride, Men, Facts
Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my mills, my Metal, my hours at a desk, at a furnace, in a laboratory, in an ore mine, as I love my ability to work, as I love the act of sight and knowledge, as I love the action of my mind when it solves a chemical equation or grasps a sunrise, as I love the things I've made and the things I've felt, as *my* product, as *my* choice, as a shape of my world, as my best mirror, as the wife I've never had, as that which makes all the rest of it possible: as my power to live.

Ayn Rand
Love You, Pride, Expression
Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2002, Penguin

My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. Now I have the knowledge of the superlative value I had missed: of my right to be proud of my vision. The rest is mine to reach.

Ayn Rand
Knowledge, Mean, Pride
Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.657, Hamilton Books

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