Don’t work for my happiness… show me your achievement and the knowledge will give me the courage for mine.

Source: The Fountainhead (1943) is a novel by Ayn Rand, Part IV ( Howard Roark ). Complete Sentence: He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he told himself, listen to the first phrases of Tchaikovsky’s Read More…

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.

Source: Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957.

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

Source: The Ayn Rand Letter (1971–1976) Complete Quote: Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

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Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Source: The Ayn Rand Letter (1971–1976)

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.

Source: Ayn Rand in:Ayn Rand Novel Collection, Penguin, 6 September 2011.