Tara Westover Quotes

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

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.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

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

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

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.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

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.

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.

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?