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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her.

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

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

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

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.

The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you.

I have always been a business person.

New York City is my playground.

I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.

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

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

My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking.

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.

Taste everything, eat nothing.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

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.

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

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.

Sleep. It's like giving yourself a massage.

I don't think it's good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.

Celebration is life's frosting: isn't frosting the very best part of the cake?

In life, no two days are the same for me. It's like a snowflake.

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.

I love pregnancy and the bump and the whole thing.

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.

I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

Being with my family is my highest priority.

You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.

Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.

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

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.

I despise shopping and department stores.

Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.

I can't work without my family being with me.

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

My biggest 'don't' from the past? Picking my face!

Bravo can't be responsible for the mental state of every single person that comes onto their network.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.

I think that if you don't enjoy doing something you are not going to be good at it.