Inspiring Ayn Rand Quotes That Will Ignite Your Passion

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Only if one feels immensely important she had told him, can one feel truly light.

A man of self respect doesn't turn into a milch cow for anybody.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

To a life; which is reason unto itself.

Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour in their life.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.

A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.