Tom Ford Quotes

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves.

If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

The main thing is to be yourself and not allow people to disturb you to be different, because they want you to be different. You gotta be yourself. Many times you throw a mistake due to your own personality or your own character or from interference that you get along the way then you learn, and the main thing is to learn from your mistakes and get better.

Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

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

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.

As I've gotten older, I've started to find my voice.

The whole journey of being a wrestler is also a journey of finding yourself and who you are. If it feels natural to you, it's natural to me because I'm just being myself every time I'm out there.

I am not at all stylish. For me, style is a state of mind and individuality.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

Right now the way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that's only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are.

Think about what kind of person you are and shape your habits, and your happiness, to show what's true about you instead of thinking that you can just import the right answer from the outside.

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.

Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained. If you have no personality, you may be able to save your face and, possibly, your entire anatomy by following the current fashion, but all we shall know about you, when we see you coming down the street, is that you had enough money to buy a glossy magazine and were sufficiently cunning to work out the cut of the garments shown therein.

Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you.