Quotes About Achievement

You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I—I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself. I will have built Cortlandt.

And only by living for himself was he able to achieve the things which are the glory of mankind. Such is the nature of achievement.

man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey...

Si tienes éxito, algún fracasado será tu dueño; si fracasas, algún triunfador será tu siervo.

I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life. It used to take me five hours to fill that tank. It now takes three. The two I saved are mine—as pricelessly mine as if I moved my grave two further hours away for every five I've got. It's two hours released from one task, to be invested in another—two more hours in which to work, to grow, to move forward. That's

do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own—they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal—for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. They

to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay—that

Señorita Taggart, ¿sabe lo que caracteriza a un mediocre? Es resentimiento por el logro de otro hombre.

All work is an act of philosophy. And when men will learn to consider productive work—and that which is its source—as the standard of their moral values, they will reach that state of perfection which is the birthright they lost..

The creator stands on his own judgment. The parasite follows the opinions of others… Look at history. Everything thing we have, every great achievement has come from the independent work of some independent mind. Every horror and destruction came from attempts to force men into a herd of brainless, soulless robots. Without personal rights, without personal ambition, without will, hope, or dignity. It is an ancient conflict. It has another name: the individual against the collective.

ideário dos saqueadores fez com que pessoas como o senhor passassem a encarar suas maiores realizações como um estigma vergonhoso, sua prosperidade como culpa, seus maiores filhos, os industriais, como vilões

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not." stated by John Galt in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

La felicidad sólo es posible al hombre racional, al hombre que sólo desea objetivos racionales, busca valores racionales y halla su goce en la ejecución de actos racionales.

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

A rational, self-confident man is motivated by a love of values and by a desire to achieve them. A neurotic is motivated by fear and by a desire to escape it. This difference in motivation is reflected, not only in the things each type of man will seek for pleasure, but in the nature of the pleasure they will experience.

achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. Joy is not 'the absence of pain,' intelligence is not 'the absence of stupidity,' light is not 'the absence of darkness,' an entity is not 'the absence of a nonentity.

no hay nada importante en la vida... excepto el modo en que se cumple la propia tarea. Nada. Tan solo eso. Todo cuanto seas procede de ahí. Es la vieja medida del valor humano. Todos los códigos de la ética que intentan hacerte tragar, son sólo papel moneda puesto en circulación por timadores para despojar de sus virtudes a la gente.

They're all aristocrats, that's true, said Wyatt, because they know that there's no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

beauty. Let's surpass them all! Let's throw their sweat in their face. Let's destroy them at one stroke. Let's be gods. Let's be ugly.

and the degree of a man's productiveness is the degree of his reward. This

When I look at the ocean, I feel the greatness of man. I think of man's magnificent capacity that created this ship to conquer all that senseless space. When I look at mountain peaks, I think of tunnels and dynamite. When I look at the planets, I think of airplanes.

It had been said that men develop brains when they have failed in everything else.

Into what bottomless, future-less sewer of the unpaid-for? Here, we trade achievements, not failures - values, not needs. We're free of one another, yet we all grow together. Wealth, Dagny? What greater wreath is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Everyone living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

Hank Rearden is the kind of man who sticks his name on everything he touches. You may, from this, form your own opinion about the character of Hank Rearden.