Famous Quotes & Sayings

Azim Premji

I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to take up a nice, cushy job rather than face the challenges of running a hydrogenated oil business. Looking back, I am glad I decided to take charge instead. Essentially leadership begins from within. It is a small voice that tells you where to go when you feel lost. If you believe in that voice, you believe in yourself.

Ayrton Senna

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

Azar Nafisi

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

Ayelet Waldman

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

Ayn Rand

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

Ayn Rand

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

Ayn Rand

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Ayn Rand

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

Ayn Rand

I think, therefore I'll think.

Ayn Rand

Never ask people about your work.

Ayn Rand

He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.

Ayn Rand

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

Ayn Rand

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

Ayn Rand

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

Ayn Rand

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Ayn Rand

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.

Ayn Rand

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Ayn Rand

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Ayn Rand

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Ayn Rand

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

Ayn Rand

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

Ayn Rand

Because, you see, God—whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.

Ayn Rand

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Ayn Rand

Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.

Ayn Rand

Do not let the hero in your soul perish...

Ayn Rand

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

Ayn Rand

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Ayn Rand

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Ayn Rand

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Ayn Rand

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Ayn Rand

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

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.