Finding Success Quotes

Failure is something which everybody has to face. It is part of life.

I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor.

I wasn't really that good at being a musician. And then I tried being a standup. I was an actor. I was a photographer. I tried everything. Nothing was particularly working for me, but then, as a musician, I wrote jokes for comics. And they started to buy my jokes, and that's where I thought maybe that might work.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow," said Buddha.

A big part of what kept me focused on the music was already failing with basketball. I played basketball all of my life. When basketball didn't work, I knew that I had to make it in whatever I decided to do next.

Everybody has a different journey. Everybody has a different path, and you don't really know what to expect. All you know is to just keep plugging away, and you hope something will come through and something will happen.

I went through some tough years when I first moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Riches' was my first major success.

Most of my shows have shown the transition of a character from a small town to the big city.

There are secret opportunities hidden inside every failure.

Do things you love; then success, possibly, will follow.

I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.

When I got the job with 'Superman,' it felt like somebody threw me into the ocean. I was just trying to figure it out, to figure out how to tread water. Lucky for me, I'm part of a great team.

I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that.

Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.

I knew I didn't want to be a doctor but didn't know what I wanted to do. I prayed, and all I heard back was: 'Do comedy.' It was something I had never done before, but I gave in, tried comedy, and the rest is history.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

But nothing really clicked for me until I gave up completely on hitting the overlap and just did what I loved, even when I thought nobody else in the world would be interested.

You know how certain actors find their niches? Eventually, I'll be there as well. I just haven't found that yet. I'm just enjoying the ride.

I've come a long way from the area where I grew up in Sheffield. It's been a journey, but I've fully enjoyed it.

Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.

I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.

I was terrified and confused every day of my life until I started Nasty Gal, and for a good while after as well.