The Fountainhead Quotes

The Fountainhead Quote of the day

The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works

For God is good — or rather, of all goodness He is Fountainhead, and it is impossible for one who is good to be mean or grudging about anything.

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.

Integers are the fountainhead of all mathematics.

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

Criticism is the fountainhead of control.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

I am a man who does not exist for others.

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".

My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don't think of you.

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone.

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.

And, after all, you’ve got to live.”“Not that way, ” said Roark.

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

My real soul...? It’s real only when it’s independent...

I’m not capable of suffering completely. I never have. It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it’s not really pain.

She found a dark satisfaction in pain—because that pain came from him.

Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake : he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost.

Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.

The exquisite kindliness of her manner suggested that their relationship was of no possible consequence, that she could not pay him the tribute of hostility.

A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.

..it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all.

You’re so beautiful, Dominique. Its such a lovely accident on God’s part that there’s one person who matches inside and out.

Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.

...if ever you hear a man telling you that you must be happy, that it’s your natural right, that your first duty is to yourself—that will be the man who’s not after your soul.

All that which proceeds from man’s independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man’s dependence upon men is evil.

Great men can’t be ruled... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.

I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.