Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.

You are the single biggest influence in your life.

You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

If you aren’t where you want to be or you haven’t achieved all you hope to achieve, the reason most likely resides not around you but within you. Take responsibility and then take action.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

You're the only person that can make your life happen.

Now if you know what you're worth. Then go out and get what you're worth.

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

You and you alone are responsible for taking actions to create the life of your dreams. Nobody else can (or will) do it for you.

I'm the one I need to work with.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.

Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

The gods help them that help themselves.