Howard Roark Quotes:

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

- Ayn Rand

topic: Action, Fountainhead, Howard Roark, Gail

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark

- Ayn Rand

topic: Thinking, Howard Roark, Think Of You

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

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.20, Penguin

topic: Life, Fountainhead, Howard Roark

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

- Ayn Rand

topic: Minutes, One Minute, Fountainhead, Howard Roark

Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable-and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No."

- Ayn Rand

topic: Important, Purpose, Way, Howard Roark

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Inspirational, Men, Challenges, Different Roads, First Steps

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

- Ayn Rand

source: Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.411, Bantam

topic: Inspirational, Soul, Doe, Fountainhead, Fountain Head

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Attitude, Men, Done, Fountainhead, Howard Roark

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Happiness, Time, Addiction, States Of Consciousness, Principles And Values

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Badass, Bad Ass, Order, Modern Architecture, Architecture Design

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Men, Saying The Truth, Howard Roark

A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!

- Ayn Rand

source: "Fictional character: Howard Roark". "The Fountainhead", www.imdb.com. 1949.

topic: Integrity, Men, Ideas, Howard Roark

I am a man who does not exist for others.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Men, Doe, Fountain Head, Howard Roark

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

- Ayn Rand

topic: Artist, Men, Scientist, Fountainhead, Howard Roark

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.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.369, Penguin

topic: Thinking, Wish, Fountainhead, Howard Roark

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

- Ayn Rand

source: The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

topic: Sacrifice, Self, World, Perishing, Fountainhead

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

- Ayn Rand

topic: People, Want, What You Want, Fountainhead, Howard Roark

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. - Howard Roark

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.749, Penguin

topic: Gratitude, Men, Giving, Tenants, Howard Roark

Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Brother, Men, Fire, Howard Roark

This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.751, Penguin

topic: Feelings, World, Wonder, Howard Roark

Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.580, Penguin

topic: I Like You, Giving, Kind, Fountain Head, Gail

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.

- Neil Peart

topic: Hero, Writing, Thinking, Howard Roark

Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.

- Neil Peart

topic: Role Models, Choices, Age, Inbreds, Howard Roark