Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

I act when I’m not in the mood.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.

The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.

Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.

The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap, forget motivation, just do it

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

Whatever can be done another day can be done today.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

Action will destroy your procrastination.

It is not enough to want to make the effort and to say we'll make the effort. We must actually make the effort. It's in the doing, not just the thinking, that we accomplish our goals. If we constantly put our goals off, we will never see them fulfilled. Someone put it this way: Live only for tomorrow, and you will have a lot of empty yesterdays today.

Cut your excuses in half and double your actions around your goals.

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.