Bethenny Frankel Quotes

Never assume someone is smarter than you.

Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.

It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.

Love yourself and don't settle for less than what you deserve.

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

I have failed so much, but I have learned so much more in life from my failures than my successes.

No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul, with a little party at the end. What good is that? Life should be punctuated with celebrations and you have to build them into your time because being happy isn't easy.

You choose happiness. You don't wait for it to choose you.

I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

If you are wasting time and energy trying to be as much like everyone else as you can, you are throwing away something precious: your individuality. When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that’s when you start to shine.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

When you regret something, what you aren’t seeing is that someday, later, or maybe sooner, you’re going to see why you didn’t get the thing you wanted. So often, something better is just around the corner.

Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'm pouring my heart into: learning how to enjoy what I have, right here, right now. Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day.

As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different--sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic.

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.

I love pregnancy and the bump and the whole thing.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

I am always willing to share my perspective and my personal experience and my journey.

Be independent and don't try to think someone is going to save you or look to someone else to make you happy or look to someone else to complete you.

Frankly, I don't trust any diet that doesn't allow sugar.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

Taste everything, eat nothing.

If you're happy on your own you are going to be okay.