Bobbi Brown Quotes

You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any job. Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.

If I can't find anything good, I am just going to have to get my butt in gear and start learning how to do everything.

There are some key words that I have learned: the first ones are humility and determination; they are fundamental to reach certain levels. I want to continue like this, working hard without ever feeling satisfied.

It's my mindset that I'm not where I want to be. I still want to be better, and I just want to stay humble about it. It's not an act. It's just how I am.

If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.

A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.

I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work."

He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless he lays his hand to the oar, and increases his speed by his own labour, must be always at the same distance from that which he is following.

If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you're wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.

We tried to create advantages. We were never complacent.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.

I was never given any hand-outs. I started at the bottom and was very good at finding people who knew more than me and learning from them.

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.

I - I try to do as much as I can, wherever I am. So, at the farm, I'm always thinking of some new project, some new thing I can do.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

It's not really a big fight to get that time to run. When you want something, then you go get it.

I'm always asked, 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

I grew up on the East Coast, and we always used to say, 'Go get your hustle on,' whether it was playing sports or making money. You do what you have to do to do what you want to do.