35 Inspirational Jessica Alba Quotes On Success

Jessica Alba is an American actress and businesswoman. She rose to prominence at 19, as the lead actress of the television series Dark Angel, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. Her big-screen breakthrough came in Honey. She soon established herself as a Hollywood actress and has starred in numerous box office hits throughout her career. She is a frequent collaborator of director Robert Rodriguez. Alba co-founded The Honest Company, a consumer goods company that sells baby, personal and household products. Magazines including Men’s Health, Vanity Fair and FHM have included her on their lists of the world’s most beautiful women. May these Jessica Alba Quotes inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.

1. “It’s hard for people to take anyone seriously who’s never done this before. But that just gave me fire to move forward.” Jessica Alba

2. “I wish I was more educated, but I make do with the tools I was given in life.” Jessica Alba

3. “Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work, and patience.” Jessica Alba

4. “I don’t think it serves any minority or underrepresented group to be coddled. Because the world won’t coddle you. So I actually believe in tough love, hard truths, black and white.” Jessica Alba

5. “My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything – even if you have no clue what you’re doing.” Jessica Alba

6. “I never just did what people told me. I questioned everything. When I look back, it is really no surprise that I started working at 12.” Jessica Alba

7. “Every time I’d get a critique or some redirection, I’d always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.” Jessica Alba

8. “But I don’t feel the need to be famous.” Jessica Alba

9. “Having the right partners also means having people you like. They’re all people I wouldn’t mind getting stuck with at an airport for five hours.” Jessica Alba

10. “The secret to using power is not to use it. Just having it is enough.” Jessica Alba

11. “Living in L.A. everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don’t care about fame, I don’t care about being a celebrity. I know that’s part of the job, but I don’t feed into anyone’s idea of who I should be.” Jessica Alba

12. “As a kid, I was always sick. I had pneumonia, I had really severe allergies. And it wasn’t until I got older, that I realized some of that was caused by toxins in things like detergent. That made me crazy because it’s supposed to help get things clean!” Jessica Alba

13. “I try my hardest every day, and I find when I go to bed early and wake up early, I feel the most productive.” Jessica Alba

14. “I like to organize. I have an opinion. I like to get stuff done.” Jessica Alba

15. “It’s so much better to promote what you love than to bash what you hate.” Jessica Alba

16. “I’m much more of a risk taker. I’m more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don’t. I probably should.” Jessica Alba

17. “I guess for me, balance isn’t about treating your time like a pie chart and dividing it into equally sized slices for you, the kids, work, and so on. It’s about the quality of how you spend your time, not the quantity – are you being present and focused on whatever you’re doing while you’re doing it? I truly believe that’s how you can be the best version of yourself, whether you’re in work mode, mom mode, or wife mode. When I know I’m giving my undivided attention in each of these areas, I don’t feel so guilty about the time spent away from them.” Jessica Alba

18. “It’s all about your product and how it performs. Either it works, or it doesn’t.” Jessica Alba

19. “At the company, we like to say we’re honest, not perfect. We really listen to our customers and our internal teams to pivot as quickly as possible when it comes to addressing any challenges.” Jessica Alba

20. “You have to be brutally honest with yourself and understand your strengths and weaknesses.” Jessica Alba

21. “With a movie, it’s not like your whole life is hanging on this thing. With a business, your whole life is hanging on this thing – people have to love it.” Jessica Alba

22. “Launching products is easy – it’s building it, finding the right manufacturers, getting the design right, and all of the marketing that is hard.” Jessica Alba

23. “I was on a TV show when I was 13, and I had a tutor for high school. Everyone was like “Oh, you’re missing out on the high school experience,” so I’d go with my cousins to parties where there would be a keg and people doing body shots and playing quarters. I was like, What a waste of time. I didn’t want to be doing E [ecstasy] and making out with a guy three years older than me who’s a loser.” Jessica Alba

24. “Nothing is put on pause. Everything is still happening. And then as far as just reflecting on what got you to where you are, there aren’t very many times where we have the space to sit and reflect and really understand the depth of what it took and the grit that we had to have to get to where we are.” Jessica Alba

25. “The only way you can measure your success is by reflecting and seeing what you want out of the experience. And the journey is just as much a part of the success you seek out.” Jessica Alba

26. “You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.” Jessica Alba

27. “Like many other moms out there, I try to buy safe products for my family, but that can’t be the only solution. You can’t hire a team of scientists to do your shopping for you. At some point the government has to step in and ensure that chemicals are safe before our children are exposed to them.” Jessica Alba

28. “Every five years I feel like I’m a completely different person.” Jessica Alba

29. “I believed that there was a real opportunity for my idea, but I had to overcome a lot of self-doubt about establishing and running a business.” Jessica Alba

30. “Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.” Jessica Alba

31. “Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.” Jessica Alba

32. “I wish there were two of me and 48-hour days so I could get everything done. But for me, I have to not try and think that everything has to be 100 percent perfect all the time and leave room for error. As long as my kids feel loved and a priority, everything else really is secondary.” Jessica Alba

33. “No matter how different women are, we all seem to share the guilt that we’re not doing enough. If anything, I would say that as long as you’re doing your best, it’s more than enough.” Jessica Alba

34. “I share the same advice that my mom gave me – stay hydrated and sleep well. And that being a beautiful person on the inside is what really matters.” Jessica Alba

35. “Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you’ll be at whatever you want to do.” Jessica Alba

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