““A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.””
"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires."
- Ayn Rand
Awareness
"There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. In this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours."
- Ayn Rand
Belief
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values."
- Ayn Rand
Happiness
"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
Happiness
"Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell."
- Ayn Rand
Courage
"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"
- President Boyd K. Packer
Ambition
"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."
- Mark Twain
Ambition
"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."
- David Ogilvy
Ambition
"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."
- Billie Jean King
Ambition
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
- Michael Jordan
Ambition