Gwen Stefani Quotes

I think if I'd quit years ago, I'd never have known what I was capable of doing.

I feel as if I've been able to do so many things I never expected to do.

We are built to be happy, strong and healthy. I fear not to live. We have everything to live up to our dreams. You have everything to achieve that, and in a very short period of time you can get all the tools to manifest who you want to be.

My music has given me a confidence I wouldn't have had if I had gone a different route.

... while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I respected and admired. Surrounded as I was by ambitious, accomplished women, I couldn't ignore the little voice in my head that said maybe I was supposed to shed halfway, and do something significant. Contribute something. Accomplish something. Choose. Be.

We're bigger than we ever dreamed, and I'm in love with being queen.

Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, "I already have, mister.

I always wanted to be good at something, to be somebody. The minute I got into my first play, which was called ''Excuse My Dust' - I was 17 at the time - I knew that this was what I'd been looking for.

Before 'Idol,' I was lost... Now, I've actually followed through with something. I am a better man for it!

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

I think we're all blessed with gifts and I was lucky I just found out what mine was early on and have planted that seed and tried to water it every day.

When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.

If you're not the brightest or if you're not great at sports, or if you're not artistic, then you've got to find a way to make your mark; otherwise you're just this tiny little insignificant dot. I didn't want to be insignificant, so I made people laugh.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I found that this was the thing I wanted to do.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

Some people can be president, some people can speak, some people, you know, anything that's positive, man - a dentist, a doctor. Just hang in there and never give up, and find out what is your talent. First you got to find your talent and just stick with your talent, and I guarantee you'll get there, man.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.