By Ayn Rand
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided according, as a man’s personal value is large or small.
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
It’s great to see women standing up in their own line of work and fighting for fair value.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
You can’t be value-free when it comes to marriage.
India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.
The best values today are often found in the stocks that were once hot and have since gone cold.
Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
