Top 66 Iskra Lawrence Quotes

You should be waking up and being excited about what you’re going to do today, and your friends and your family, and what you’re going to achieve in life.

The more time I invested in myself and finding out what made me unique and special, the more jobs and campaigns I booked.

When you get to that point where you don’t have to worry and you don’t have to think about it… I’m pretty sure that’s the best diet you can be on.

The focus for me is always about health. That’s why I talk about self-care rather than size or anything like that, because that’s something we can all do that’s relatable – this discussion of being healthy form the inside-out.

Everybody can rock a bikini, swimsuit, unicorn onesie… whatever floats your boat. If you wear it with confidence, you will look hot.

I never want to shame anyone. I love going to the gym, and I feel proud and fit. That, for me, is aspirational. There are things you can do in a very healthy, natural way. This is how I work with my body to make it the best I can be. That’s the shape that I have, just toned and tight. That’s my preference.

I have heard every negative thing under the sun about my body.

A brand is only going to want to be more inclusive if they feel like it’s going to be good for business as well as making the consumer feel good – so we have to encourage people to do that. Consumers have to stand up and say, ‘I have power: my pound or dollar is how I vote.’

Phones are interesting objects. Sometimes you wish they just didn’t exist.

I think everyone who shares a piece of themselves and is open and honest – I think that helps us all.

There’s a direct correlation between media and how we feel about our bodies.

I think unretouched images are even more beautiful.

Any images that I’ve had retouched, I look at them, and I think, ‘Oh I actually don’t want that.’ That’s why I don’t share them on Instagram.

If you want to wear something and you feel confident, you are going to rock it. That’s what I love about fashion: it’s your choice and your chance to express yourself.

I refuse to let something as insignificant as a size or number on a scale determine how I feel about myself. I am grateful for my body, my health, and the life that I have, and no arbitrary number should have any impact on that.

You don’t always need to be this flawless female with amazing skin and done hair. Perfect doesn’t exist.

We don’t need to be categorized – we are all individual and beautifully unique.

My long-term dream is to have self-education in schools for mental, physical, and emotional health because we need to learn how to speak to ourselves in a loving way and to each other.

It’s easy to forget how powerful our bodies actually are.

When we think about our bodies, we often think about the way they look as opposed to what they accomplish for us every day.

Invest in brands that make you feel good and that you believe in.

Everyone has to realize that body-shaming can happen at any size.

I remember doing a commercial one time where I stepped on a shard of glass, and I was hobbling around in swimwear. It was raining and in the commercial, when I saw it, I didn’t look like I had a messed up foot.

I didn’t always have a lot of self confidence growing up.

I always encourage other people to share a story and voices. That is so important.

When I was a teenager, a mean comment would have hurt me deeply, I’ve made it my mission to be a role model for young girls and boys and help show them that other people’s words or opinions have nothing to do with how beautiful they actually are.

Like virtually all of the women I know, I spent my teenage years battling with my body and feeling I wasn’t good enough. A lot of that negativity is because I was pursuing a career in modeling and was told countless times that my body was too big. My hips and thighs were too wide.

No matter what age you are, your voice should be heard, and you can develop a passion for something and be an activist in your own right, in your own field, for something you feel strongly about.

Because I was a swimmer, I felt like sports did help me to realize that my body was more than what it just looked like… and if didn’t eat, then I couldn’t swim fast.

I don’t ever wanna blame my body for not being right.

Social media should be a true sense of who you are.

When you’re happy and at one with yourself and have come to peace with who you are, that radiates.

Hateful words stand no chance against self-worth and a little of humor.

I felt like the sample size was right, and my body was wrong. I basically ended up going into battle with my body, and that’s a daily battle every time you look in the mirror. Every time you see an image of a successful model or someone who you look up to who doesn’t look like you, you think you’re not good enough.

People often ask me, ‘Who is your role model?’ and it sounds a bit cliche, but I’ve been trying to be my own model.

I tried the maple syrup diet. I tried the protein-only Atkins diet.

There is a way to disagree with someone, but it doesn’t have to be threatening.

I had a taste for this fashion industry that I loved and wanted to be a part of.

I remember Googling operations to make my calves slimmer, and I ate only ham for a week to try and become skinny.

I had had my own trials and tribulations with body image. I had gone through a lot starting from my teenage years.

I love McDonald’s now and again – not every day.

For me, I feel empowered when I use my body to exercise, play sports, and explore the world. My body allows me to sing, dance, talk, feel – and eat a damn good piece of cheesecake.

We need to realize that we can do anything with our lives because of who we are.

If you start talking to yourself in a loving way you’re going to feel so much better, and your life is going to be so much happier.

I spent so many years being repeatedly rejected and told I wasn’t good enough. It took a huge toll on my self-esteem until I realized I am more than my body and that, actually, our beauty comes from diversity.

I got told I wasn’t good enough and that I could never make it. And then Aerie told me I was beautiful because I was me.

The most important relationship we have in our lives is the relationship we have with ourselves, and we’re not taught about it.

When I joined Instagram, I began sharing my raw photos along with my raw and honest thoughts and feelings.

There’s nothing wrong with having a bad day. Let yourself feel those emotions because every emotion is validated.

I just spent five, six years sacrificing so much to try and fit into that one ideal, that one small standard, and I was never good enough. And it was just frustration that turned into motivation… That became my ammunition, all the people that told me I couldn’t.

I treat health and fitness as looking after myself.

I’ve been trying to be the model that I wanted to see when I was a teenager, looking through magazines and not seeing myself, looking at pictures that were so edited.

For so many years, I thought I wasn’t good enough.

I live by ‘Everything in moderation.’

Throughout my whole teenage years, I had zero confidence and had to build it from the bottom up.

I was called ‘fat’ 200 times on shoots and had serious trouble fitting in the clothes at fashion shows. All these things break you down to a point where you look in the mirror and don’t like what you see.

I’m happy with myself. I respect myself. And I know that no man, no jeans, no scale, and no booker is in control of my future – I am.

Be you. Everyone else is already taken.

My dad always has the best advice!

I’m very much a positive person – I put good energy out there – so I don’t feel like anyone would want to do anything nasty to me.

I was a ‘straight-size’ model from 13 to 16, but I was eventually dropped by the agency because my hips were too big.

Instead of waking up and worrying about your thigh gap, wake up and worry about what you’re going to achieve today. What can you do, and how can you give back?

As a model, I feel a great responsibility, and I understand how an image can make a young woman feel.

Clothing for larger sizes doesn’t have to look frumpy and old; it should seamlessly integrate fashion – like Universal Standard.

I dreamt of being an Aerie model before I came to New York. That was one of the main reasons I came to New York and wanted to get signed.

Never think your life isn’t good enough. You only have one, so enjoy every minute.