List of Nathaniel Branden Quotes

Whether In The Workplace Or In Personal Relationships, Success Belongs To Those Who Are Willing To Take Responsibility For Attaining Their Desires-those Who Respond To Life Actively Rather Than Passively.

Fully To Surrender To Love Can Be Terrifying. But It Is The Price Life Asks In Exchange For The Possibility Of Ecstasy.

... There Is An Irrational, Cultish Tendency In Many Intellectual Movements, And Objectivism, Alas, Is No Exception. Ayn Rand's Personal Obsession With Loyalty Did Little To Discourage This Trend.... Rand Had Often Protested, 'protect Me From My Followers!'

Whether Your Focus Is On Preserving And Strengthening Family Ties In A World Of Increasingly Unstable Relationships, Gaining Access To A Decent Job, Growing And Evolving As A Person, Or Guiding A Company Through The Stormy Seas Of A Fiercely Competitive Global Marketplace-whether Your Goals Are Material, Emotional, Or Spiritual-the Price Of Success Is The Same: Thinking, Learning. To Be Asleep At The Wheel-to Rely Only On The Known, Familiar, And Automatized-is To Invite Disaster.

Freedom Is Still The Most Radical Idea Of All.

Individualism Is At Once An Ethical-psychological Concept And An Ethical-political One. As An Ethical-psychological Concept, Individualism Holds That A Human Being Should Think And Judge Independently, Respecting Nothing More Than The Sovereignty Of His Or Her Mind; Thus, It Is Intimately Connected With The Concept Of Autonomy. As An Ethical-political Concept, Individualism Upholds The Supremacy Of Individual Rights

It Is Easy Enough To Say, Be True To Your Values. But What If Your Values Are Irrational? Or What If The Virtues You Have Committed Yourself To Are So Much Against Human Nature That They Cannot Be Practiced Consistently? Be Careful Of What You Accept As Your Code Of Morality. Think Carefully About Whether Its Tenets Serve Your Life And Well Being. Exercise Critical Judgment. Realize How Much Is At Stake-your Life, Your Happiness, Your Self-esteem.

If You Bring Five Percent More Awareness To Your Work Tomorrow, Or To Your Most Important Relationship, What Might You Do Differently? Are You Willing To Find Out?

High Self Esteem People Can Surely Be Knocked Down By An Excess Of Troubles, But They Are Quickerto Pick Themselves Up Again.

An Emotion Is Both A Mental And A Physical Event.

If You Have High Self-esteem, You Might Still Know Times Of Emotional Suffering, But Less Often And With Faster Recovery-your Resilience Is Greater.

It Is A Curious Paradox Of Human History That A Doctrine That Tells Human Beings To Regard Themselves As Sacrificial Animals Has Been Accepted As A Doctrine Representing Benevolence And Love For Mankind.