Ashley Graham Quotes

Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

Beauty is about what's inside us, loving who we are and nurturing that. Outward beauty can really blossom from there.

I want to show the world, the universe rather, that I am confidently beautiful with a heart.

I want my story to help others see what's extraordinary in themselves.

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin.

We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

I encourage women to just feel good about who you are.

When I receive letters from girls that say, 'You give me confidence,' I think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' That's my goal: to let people know it's truly what's on the inside that counts.

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.

The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

I think confidence is a true form of beauty.

I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'