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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
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.
When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.
In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless... Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man -- the function of his reasoning mind.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another.
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
What do you know and how do you know it?
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.