Big Ideas tagged with "Ayn Rand"

Marcus Aurelius : The Opinions of Others

Friedrich Nietzsche : Flying & Looking Up

Ayn Rand : Not a Second-Hander

Ayn Rand : Heroes Need Challenges

Ayn Rand : Our Own Greatness

Ayn Rand : Not a Second-Hander

Ayn Rand : I Love You

Ayn Rand : Show Me Your Achievement

Ayn Rand : We Must Love The Doing

Ayn Rand : On Purpose

Ayn Rand : Pure White Bliss

Ayn Rand : Independence

Ayn Rand : Comparisons

Ayn Rand : Know What You Want

Ayn Rand : The Greatest Kind of Courage

Ayn Rand : Our Greatness

These might interest you, too:

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 is yours.

~ Ayn Rand Quotes
Self-Development Quotes on: Hope

[Roark to Keating:] If you want my advice, Peter," he said at last, "you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?"

~ Ayn Rand Quotes from The Fountainhead
Motivational Quotes on: Ayn Rand, Vice, Mistake, Work, The Fountainhead, Skin, People

She knew she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

~ Ayn Rand Quotes from The Fountainhead
Inspirational Quotes on: Ayn Rand, New, The Fountainhead

Roark: "I don't make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I'm an utter egotist.

~ Ayn Rand Quotes from The Fountainhead
Famous Quotes on: Think, Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.

~ Ayn Rand Quotes from The Fountainhead
Self-Development Quotes on: Love, Sin, Devo, Ayn Rand, Kind, Path, Work, Mastery, Passion, The Fountainhead, Master, Friend, Devotion, Simple

Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable--and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No."

~ Ayn Rand Quotes from The Fountainhead
Motivational Quotes on: Purpose, War, Ayn Rand, Great, Body, Reason, The Fountainhead

Why do they always teach us that it is easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves. It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.

~ Ayn Rand Quotes
Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Teach, Ayn Rand, Kind, Great, Rest, Evil

I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

~ Ayn Rand Quotes
Famous Quotes on: Ayn Rand, Great, The Way

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

~ Ayn Rand Quotes
Self-Development Quotes on: Goals

You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

~ Ayn Rand Quotes
Motivational Quotes on: Love, Integrity

---