Vanessa Diffenbaugh Quotes

As you get older, if you're lucky, you realize two things: what you like, but also what you're good at.

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

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

I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.

I feel good about who I am.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need.

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

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.

Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.

I believe in doing what I am best at.

It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy.

I've learned over the years that you're going to be most successful at the things you're most excited to do. Every artist has a special set of tools. When you really use those tools, and you make yourself feel really good about the product you create, I think you'll find an audience for it. I've been very fortunate in that respect.

Every kid has something they're good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.

One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.

I realized that I didn't want to do anything else. Plus, I realized I was good, and, most importantly, I actually loved to sing on stage.

You move to New York. You want to be the biggest, most fully realized version of yourself you can be. A lot of that is fueled by this desire to not feel small, and to make a name for myself and establish myself in a way that wasn't expected of me.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength.

It's a cliche, but most people are good at something, and most people are good at what they're enthusiastic about.