Taryn Manning Quotes

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

I feel like I am an inspiration. That's the word I prefer. I don't believe that I have to be a role model, someone to be emulated.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

Your world will follow your idea about yourself.

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.

For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.

Thus the radii of all education run together into one center which is called personality.

Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.

Act like the person you conceive yourself to be.

The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop a personality in order to be seen as attractive. By the time I realized maybe I wasn't plain and might even possibly be pretty, I had already trained myself to be a little more interesting and informed.

Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Society should emphasize personality. Accomplishment. Interest. Intelligent things. I think everybody should look as good as possible too.

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves.

The best investment you can make is in yourself.