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Ayn Rand Quotes about Self Esteem

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

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

Self Esteem, Self Worth, Men

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

Self Esteem, Men, Giving

Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

Self Esteem, Honor, Action

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

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

Self Esteem, Greatness, Three

Playboy Interview, March, 1964.

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

Selfish, Self Esteem, Love Is

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

Honesty, Integrity, Self Esteem

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.

Self Esteem, Reality, Men

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

Confidence, Self Esteem, Men

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

Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think.

Self Esteem, Thinking, Reliance

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

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

Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Reason

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

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.

Love, Selfish, Self Esteem

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

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

Self Esteem, Independent, Men

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.

Self Esteem, Self Confidence, 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.

Self Esteem, Fighting, Issues

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.

Self Esteem, Greatness, Men

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.

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.

Confidence, Self Esteem, Men

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.

Self Esteem, Men, Selfishness

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

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