20 Best Quotes By Ayn Rand On Individualism [ pics ]

About Ayn Rand:

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand still remains as one of the most influential books ever written. This post is exclusively for Ayn Rand Fans who are interested in her philosophy. 

A few days back, I completed reading The Fountain Head by Ayn Rand. I started reading Atlas Shrugged. So, I would like to share a few quotes of from these books.

20 Best Quotes By Ayn Rand On Individualism :

Quotes From The Fountainhead:

" Learn to value yourself, which means: To fight for your happiness " 

- Ayn Rand 

"A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. " 

- Ayn Rand

 A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. 

- Ayn Rand 

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. 
- Ayn Rand 


God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. 
- Ayn Rand

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. 
- Ayn Rand 


I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. 
- Ayn Rand

" 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 

“ I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.” 

- Ayn Rand

 “Freedom : To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.” 

- Ayn Rand

Quotes From Atlas Shrugged:

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

- Ayn Rand

" If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. "

 - Ayn Rand

30 Friendship Quotes That Every Friend Must Read [ pics ]

Friendship Quotes That Every Friend Must Read:

" There are no such things as strangers, 

only friends we haven't met yet. "

- Anonymous 

 

" You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can by trying to get other people interested in you. "

- Dale Carnegie

" You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour. " 

- Chinese Proverb

" In times of prosperity friends will be plenty; 

in time of adversity not one in twenty. " 

- English Proverb 

" Each friend represents a world in us, 

a world possibly not born until they arrive, 

and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. " 

- Anais Nin

 

" A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway. "

- Christi Mary Warner

  

" We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, 

and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. "

- Robert Lewis Stevenson 

 

" The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. " 

- Henry David Thoreau

 

" How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? 

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. "

- Albert Camus 

 

" Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship never. "

- Charles Caleb Colton 

 

" A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. "

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 

" No person is your friend who demands your silence, 

or denies your right to grow. " 

- Alice Walker

" My best friend is the man who in wishing me 

well wishes it for my sake. "

- Aristotle 


 " A hug is worth a thousand words.
A friend is worth more. "
- Anonymous

 

" Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. "

- Aristotle 

 

" This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half. "

- Francis Bacon 

 

" Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. "

- Eustace Budgell 

 

" My best friend is the one that brings out the best in me. "

- Henry Ford 

" If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. " 

- E. M. Forster 

" However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. "

- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld 

 

" Real friendship is shown in times of trouble;
prosperity is full of friends. "

- Euripides 

 

" No man can be happy without a friend, 

nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. "

- Thomas Fuller 

 

" Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. "

- Oscar Wilde 

 

" We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. "

- W. Somerset Maugham 

 

" Love demands infinitely less than friendship. "

- George Jean Nathan 

 

" Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. "

- Friedrich Nietzsche 

 

" Hold a true friend with both your hands. "
- Nigerian Proverb

20 Cute Inspirational Quotes You Will Love [ images ]

Cute Inspirational Quotes You Will Love:

" You miss 100% of the shots you don't take "

- Wayne Gretzky

" Inspiration and genius -- one and the same. "

 - Victor Hugo

" The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination "

- Anonymous 

" If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. "

 - Henry David Thoreau

 

" If you would create something, you must be something.

 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Every artist was first an amateur. "

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. "

- Horace Bushnell

" No great man ever complains of want of  opportunities. "

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

" Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. "

- Thomas Carlyle

" The power of imagination makes us infinite. "
 - John Muir

 

To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

" Try not to become a man of success 

but a man of value. "

- Albert Einstein 

" Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve "

- Clement W.Stone

 "Sometimes we stare so long at a door

 that is closing that we see too late 

the one that is open "

- Alexander Bell

40 Great Quotes By William Shakespeare [ with pics ]

Best Quotes By William Shakespeare:

" Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. "

- William Shakespeare


" I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father. "

- William Shakespeare 

 " Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. "

- William Shakespeare

" It is a wise father that knows his own child. "

- William Shakespeare 

" Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. "

- William Shakespeare

" Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. "

- William Shakespeare

" I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. " 

- William Shakespeare

" I will praise any man that will praise me. "

- William Shakespeare  

  " When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain. "

- William Shakespeare

" Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing. "

- William Shakespeare

 
" Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? "

- William Shakespeare

" Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. "

- William Shakespeare

" With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. "

- William Shakespeare

 

" Women may fall when there's no strength in men. "

- William Shakespeare

" Words without thoughts never to heaven go. "

- William Shakespeare

" It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. "

- William Shakespeare

" It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions. "

- William Shakespeare

" It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood. "

- William Shakespeare

" Lawless are they that make their wills their law. "

- William Shakespeare

" Let no such man be trusted. "

- William Shakespeare

" I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire. "

- William Shakespeare

 

" I say there is no darkness but ignorance. "

- William Shakespeare 

 

" I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. "

- William Shakespeare

 

" I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart. "

- William Shakespeare

 

" I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. "

- William Shakespeare

10 Best Inspirational Quotes By Steve Jobs [ images ]

10 Best Inspirational Quotes By Steve Jobs:

Steve Jobs Quote #1:

" Stay Hungry... Stay Foolish. "

- Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs Quote #2:

" Do you want to spend the rest of life selling sugared water or do you want to change the world?  " 

- Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs Quote #3:

“It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.” 

- Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs Quote #4:

 " No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share " 

- Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs Quote #5:

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” 

- Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs Quote #6:

 "Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we have done something wonderful... that's what matter to me. "

- Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs Quote #7:

“ Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. ” 

- Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs Quote #8:

 " Follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary "

- Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs Quote #9:

“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” 

-Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs Quote #10:

" Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower "
- Steve jobs

Top 10 Hilarious Life Quotes Of All Time [ pics ]

Top 10 Funny Life Quotes Of All Time:

Funny Life Quote #1:

" If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off. "

Funny Life Quote #2:

" Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because i have done it thousands of times. "

- Mark Twain

Funny Life Quote #3:

" A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. "
- Robert Frost

Funny Life Quote #4:

" If life is like a box of chocolates... why can't I buy one? "

Funny Life Quote #5:

" God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now, I am so far behind I will never die. "

Funny Life Quote #6:

" Who says nothing is impossible... I've been doing nothing for years. "

Funny Life Quote #7:

" There are some questions that can't be answered by Google. "

Funny Life Quote #8:

" The trouble with real life is there is no danger music. "

Funny Life Quote #9:

" People say You can't live without love... I think oxygen is more important. "

Funny Life Quote #10:

" Everything will be ok in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end. "