Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

The line encapsulates a core Randian theme: self-esteem as a moral imperative and happiness as a legitimate, self-directed goal. “Value yourself” points to the conviction that one’s life and flourishing are ends in themselves, not instruments for others’ purposes. The phrase “fight for your happiness” frames happiness not as passive good fortune but as something requiring resolve—clear values, rational judgment, and resistance to social pressures that demand self-sacrifice. In Rand’s ethical outlook, this “fight” is primarily internal and principled: choosing long-range well-being over guilt, conformity, or unearned obligations, and asserting one’s right to pursue a life one judges worth living.