Tara Westover Quotes

Always educate yourself.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Each year I have grown and learned new things.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.