Ten of My Favourite Ayn Rand Quotes
Ayn Rand, a writer whom I am guessing you love? Here are our 10 best Ayn Rand quotes for you to enjoy. At Australia Unwrapped we believe every book has at least one quotable line, and our mission is to find them all. Here you will find Ayn Rand’s top 10 popular and famous quotes. Like every good writer Ayn Rand made a number of memorable quotes, here are some of our favourites:
Popular Quotes
“To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“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.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“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.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”
[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
― Ayn Rand
“If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
― Ayn Rand
10 Famous Quotes by Author Ayn Rand
Quotes for all, here you found our selection of 10 Ayn Rand quotes. Make sure you help by commenting your best Ayn Rand quote below and sharing our favourite authors so we can look them up, read some of their works and give you the best quotes we can find. We hope you enjoyed our top 10 quotes by Ayn Rand. However, feel free to comment below if you disagree or would like to include some other great and memorable Ayn Rand quotes in our list.
One Final Bonus – Ayn Rand Quote
“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a person’s sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves. No matter what corruption they’re taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which they cannot perform for any motive but their own enjoyment – just try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity! – an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exultation, only on the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire. It is an act that forces them to stand naked in spirit, as well as in body, and accept their real ego as their standard of value. They will always be attracted to the person who reflects their deepest vision of themselves, the person whose surrender permits them to experience – or to fake – a sense of self-esteem .. Love is our response to our highest values – and can be nothing else.”
― Ayn Rand
