Top 60 Tyra Banks Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t make excuses – make improvements!”

— Tyra Banks

2. “Never dull your shine for somebody else.”

— Tyra Banks

3. “I love the confidence that makeup gives me.”

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4. “Perfect is boring, human is beautiful.”

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5. “Once you plant seeds of success, your tree will bear fierce fruit.”

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6. “Beauty’s easy. Modeling is not just about being pretty.”

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7. “You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.”

— Tyra Banks

8. “Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one’s going to take responsibility for you.”

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9. “Flaws are awesome – so, flawsome! I love making up a word.”

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10. “Its so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.”

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11. “Every woman has a story.”

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12. “A smile is the most important thing you wear.”

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13. “Love every part of yourself. Even the things that frustrate you. They make you who you are!”

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14. “I am totally against plastic surgery. A lot of people think I have breast implants because I have the biggest boobs in the business.”

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15. “Modeling is being a ho, but making it fashion.”

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16. “Perception is reality, because that is their truth.”

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17. “You can’t model for the rest of your life, so it is important to diversify your career.”

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18. “When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer – involuntarily – and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.”

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19. “I’m not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation...”

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20. “Girls of all kinds can be beautiful; from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned.”

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21. “I don’t go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.”

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22. “I’ve had my heart broken one too many times.”

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23. “My nutritionist says, ‘If you bite it, write it.’ Writing down everything that you put in your mouth really helps. I don’t count a damn calorie. But when I’m really trying to eat healthy, I write everything down. It really holds me accountable and puts me on a healthier path.”

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24. “Modeling chose me, I didn’t choose modeling.”

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25. “Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.”

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26. “One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if Im having a bad day, she goes, Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.”

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27. “I close my eyes while driving and just sing along. I always open them again in time.”

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28. “Use romantic relationships to grow, not to lose yourself. Keep your priorities in order.”

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29. “Girls of all kinds can be beautiful...”

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30. “My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.”

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31. “I don’t know what to do with my arms. It just makes me feel weird and I feel like people are looking at me and that makes me nervous.”

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32. “I won’t say if I’m single or dating or married or divorced. There’s boundaries.”

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33. “A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it’s the truth.”

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34. “Love is an excuse to be stupid.”

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35. “When I am full, I stop eating.”

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36. “Because my hands are rough and wrinkley, they are my least favourite feature. An ex-boyfriend used to call them ‘Freddy Kreuger’ fingers.”

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37. “Hotness to me is scary. I don’t want to be hot. I just want to be a staple. I want to be something that’s trusted.”

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38. “I feel more comfortable when I’m lighter – I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I work out, my arms look better.”

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39. “I kind of like the wind in my face. If it wasn’t there, I don’t know if I would push as hard.”

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40. “I don’t like the label ‘plus-size’ – I call it ‘fiercely real.’ On ‘Top Model,’ we call it fiercely real. I don’t want to use the term ‘plus-size,’ because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn’t have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.”

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41. “I think every woman would want to do something about their cellulite!”

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42. “A smart model is a good model.”

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43. “It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.”

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44. “It was really hurtful to me. I get so much mail from young girls who say, ‘I look up to you, you’re not as skinny as everyone else, I think you’re beautiful.’ So when they say that my body is ‘ugly’ and ‘disgusting,’ what does that make those girls feel like?”

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45. “Black women don’t have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.”

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46. “I don’t like looking at awards everyday because I feel like they can make you lazy. So, I give them to my Mom and let her look at it everyday. They are symbols of the hard work she put into me. Her sacrifices allowed me and my team to win those awards. But I don’t look at any awards everyday.”

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47. “I look at myself and pick out the things I don’t like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.”

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48. “Keep in mind that we should always thank those who hurt us, especially those who did so bad we are forced to transform. They risk the eternal verdict of going to hell just to make us better than who we are.”

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49. “I just want you to be yourself. Be a bigger yourself.”

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50. “Admiring the D, are you?”

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