Top 60 Bethenny Frankel Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Let’s be clear, I’m a strong woman.”

— Bethenny Frankel

Featured in: Quotes About Strength, Strong Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Identity Quotes

2. “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.”

— Bethenny Frankel

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

— Bethenny Frankel

4. “You choose happiness. You don’t wait for it to choose you.”

— Bethenny Frankel

5. “I’m scared of the unknown future.”

— Bethenny Frankel

6. “I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I’m grateful for her.”

— Bethenny Frankel

7. “Being with my family is my highest priority.”

— Bethenny Frankel

8. “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.”

— Bethenny Frankel

9. “Celebration is life’s frosting: isn’t frosting the very best part of the cake?”

— Bethenny Frankel

10. “The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman. – Mexican proverb.”

— Bethenny Frankel

11. “You’re alone in your ideas, because you’re the only one who knows what’s possible.”

— Bethenny Frankel

12. “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.”

— Bethenny Frankel

13. “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.”

— Bethenny Frankel

14. “New York City is my playground.”

— Bethenny Frankel

15. “Taste everything, eat nothing.”

— Bethenny Frankel

16. “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.”

— Bethenny Frankel

17. “Nothing is forever, so prioritize what matters today and worry about tomorrow tomorrow. It’s not selfish, it’s survival.”

— Bethenny Frankel

18. “I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.”

— Bethenny Frankel

19. “I’ve often thought if I didn’t make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.”

— Bethenny Frankel

20. “I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.”

— Bethenny Frankel

21. “If they hurt you, you don’t need them in your life,” he said. “Family is about love, not blood.”

— Bethenny Frankel

22. “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.”

— Bethenny Frankel

23. “I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can’t manipulate fate.”

— Bethenny Frankel

24. “I’m stronger than anything in my way. Holla!”

— Bethenny Frankel

25. “Never assume someone is smarter than you.”

— Bethenny Frankel

26. “Food is not your best friend or enemy.”

— Bethenny Frankel

27. “You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It’s not fair to them.”

— Bethenny Frankel

28. “Bravo can’t be responsible for the mental state of every single person that comes onto their network.”

— Bethenny Frankel

29. “And so what if it takes a while? What’s the hurry? Great things take time, and your life is a project.”

— Bethenny Frankel

30. “You do what you can, when you can, and only after you’ve had enough sleep.”

— Bethenny Frankel

31. “I love pregnancy and the bump and the whole thing.”

— Bethenny Frankel

32. “I’m always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.”

— Bethenny Frankel

33. “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.”

— Bethenny Frankel

34. “In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.”

— Bethenny Frankel

35. “If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it’s going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don’t say, “Oh, my jeans don’t fit,” or “Oh, I was bad.” No diets. Nothing like that.”

— Bethenny Frankel

36. “The question isn’t ‘Is he normal?’ or ‘Are you normal?’ but ‘What is normal for us?”

— Bethenny Frankel

37. “I grew up in a very toxic home.”

— Bethenny Frankel

38. “I didn’t binge when I was pregnant.”

— Bethenny Frankel

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

— Bethenny Frankel

40. “Life is hopefully long, so I don’t know what the future will bring.”

— Bethenny Frankel

41. “I’ve always been told I have a giant placenta.”

— Bethenny Frankel

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

— Bethenny Frankel

43. “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.”

— Bethenny Frankel

44. “It’s hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.”

— Bethenny Frankel

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

— Bethenny Frankel

46. “I don’t believe in diets.”

— Bethenny Frankel

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

— Bethenny Frankel

48. “Frankly, I don’t trust any diet that doesn’t allow sugar.”

— Bethenny Frankel

49. “Thinking about women who can’t have their own baby, even the first baby, I’m really lucky.”

— Bethenny Frankel

50. “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.”

— Bethenny Frankel