Top 100 Mandy Hale Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If you surrender your self-worth to someone who doesn’t see your true value, what happens when someone comes along who wants to give you what you’re worth instead of what you’ll settle for? The bottom line: You’ve got to know your worth, at.”

— Mandy Hale

52. “Sometimes you have to realize that you’ve HAD enough to realize that you ARE enough.”

— Mandy Hale

53. “Some relationships just don’t work out, no matter how bad both parties might want them to. Sometimes time, distance, and circumstances get in the way. And sometimes we have a purpose for our lives that couldn’t be fulfilled inside the bounds of that relationship.”

— Mandy Hale

54. “Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.”

— Mandy Hale

55. “It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.”

— Mandy Hale

56. “You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”

— Mandy Hale

57. “But if you learn to really sit with that loneliness and embrace it as the gift that it is – an opportunity to get to know yourself, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but yourself for your happiness – you will realize that a little loneliness goes a long way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful you.”

— Mandy Hale

58. “And somewhere along the way, amidst all the loss, tears, triumph, tragedy, joy, pain, laughter, transformation, restoration, lessons, love, and life, you realize that the true meaning of it all isn’t to settle for merely a Happy Ending, but to hold out for a Happy Everything.”

— Mandy Hale

59. “The beauty of life is in its shades of light and dark, heartbreak and healing, joy and sadness, laughter and tears. Everything can’t possibly be happy because then NOTHING would be happy.”

— Mandy Hale

60. “God knows what you’re ready for. He knows what your arms are able to carry. He knows what your heart can contain. He knows what’s coming, and He knows how and when to prepare you for it. He knows the right time, the right place, the right person, the right answer. He knows, so you don’t have to.”

— Mandy Hale

61. “Often in life we get so caught up in what we don’t have that we forget to be grateful for what we do have. We get so busy asking and seeking and begging and pursuing that we never take time out simply to be. To sit still.”

— Mandy Hale

62. “Sometimes “no” is the most loving, gentle answer God can give.”

— Mandy Hale

63. “Rid yourself of all the things you’ve outgrown and the things you’re meant to grow into will track you down!”

— Mandy Hale

64. “She screws up – a lot. She stumbles and she falls. She gets it wrong as often as she gets it right. But she never gives up the fight.”

— Mandy Hale

65. “The truth is, you can only give a person so much time to realize what’s standing right in front of them. You can only let a person chase you for so long before you realize that maybe, just maybe, they never intended to catch you at all.”

— Mandy Hale

66. “Be vulnerable. Take a chance. Step outside your comfort zone. Try something new and daring and audacious. Maybe it’s changing jobs or changing cities or simply changing your hair color. But do something different than what you do every single day. Take a risk. Even if you’re not ready to. Because you never know how important and vital the sentence you’re writing today is to the bigger story your life is trying to tell.”

— Mandy Hale

67. “I’m still here. The doubt, the fear, the heartbreak, the depression, the anxiety, the insecurity: It didn’t win. The people who hurt me and let me down: They didn’t win. The disappointment and the failure, and the hopes and deferred dreams: Nope. They didn’t win either.”

— Mandy Hale

68. “The real fairy tale is designing a life that’s so amazing that you don’t want to be rescued from it.”

— Mandy Hale

69. “God already has someone picked out for you, and you don’t have to frantically search for him. When it’s right, God will cross your paths.”

— Mandy Hale

70. “My journey, however, has followed a far less predictable story: stalled chapters, unexpected plot twists, and dozens of rewrites that have left the ending more than a little uncertain.”

— Mandy Hale

71. “She has moments of panic when she wonders if her Prince Charming got lost somewhere or decided to settle for another less complicated, less stubborn, less independent princess.”

— Mandy Hale

72. “Your thoughts are like a magnet; they determine what you attract. So if you want to live in abundance, stop focusing on what you lack!”

— Mandy Hale

73. “Here’s a little nugget I’ve learned in life about the secret to being a good friend: when words won’t suffice, lend an ear. When you can’t march into a courtroom or a conference room or a classroom and lay the smack down, lend your shoulder to cry on. When you don’t have money for expensive presents, offer your simple presence. And when you don’t know what else to do for someone, pray for him or her. It does matter. It is enough. It will be remembered for years to come.”

— Mandy Hale

74. “Red flags are moments of hesitation that determine our destination.”

— Mandy Hale

75. “But in the midst of all that uncertainty and lack of clarity, there lies a wild beauty. A hope. Possibility. The promise of something bigger than us happening just beneath the surface that we can’t see.”

— Mandy Hale

76. “If something on the inside is telling you that someone isn’t right for you, they’re NOT right for you, no matter how great they might look on paper. When it’s right for you, you will know. And when it’s not – it’s time to go.”

— Mandy Hale

77. “Life is too short for constant struggle and pain. LET IT GO and move on to the beauty and light.”

— Mandy Hale

78. “The wonderful, beautiful thing that happens when you rid yourself of the things that don’t see your worth? You make space in your life for all the glorious things you deserve.”

— Mandy Hale

79. “When we overthink, we stop acting boldly and hide behind our endless streams of questions, objections, and insecurities. We drive away people and opportunities that are meant to be in our lives by overwhelming them with our expectations, stipulations, and worries. We shut off our hearts and allow our minds to work overtime, essentially turning ourselves into hamsters in wheels – endlessly grinding but going nowhere.”

— Mandy Hale

80. “Single is a choice, just like Married is.”

— Mandy Hale

81. “As it turns out, it was that very rock bottom that became the most firm foundation I had ever planted my feet on. A foundation so solid, it finally provided the springboard I needed to outrun that teasing, taunting shadow of unworthiness that had followed me my entire life.”

— Mandy Hale

82. “BEAUTIFUL CERTAINTY: I often need to be reminded that God’s timetable is better than mine. The in-between, the meantime, the waiting – it can all be frustrating, but it is in those moments we are refined, redesigned, and realigned with God’s will as He prepares us to be launched into our next chapter.”

— Mandy Hale

83. “When you stop blooming where you’ve been planted, it’s time to put down new roots.”

— Mandy Hale

84. “Do not use your words on those who deserve your silence; sometimes the best best thing you can do is to say nothing at all.”

— Mandy Hale

85. “In the midst of our struggle to find out who we are, there are infinite possibilities for beauty, and hope, and wonder, and love.”

— Mandy Hale

86. “So many people bump into our lives for a second and it changes us forever, but they never know it. And while that’s funny and strange and a little sad, it’s also just life. And the truth of the matter is, it was never really about them anyway. It was always about us and what we were meant to learn from them. It was always about us and who we were meant to BECOME as a result of having encountered them.”

— Mandy Hale

87. “While you spend minutes, hours, days, and even years toiling away at a job that you’re not 100% passionate about, precious time that you could be dedicating to your own dreams dwindles away.”

— Mandy Hale

88. “A girl who truly knows herself is a girl everybody else wants to know.”

— Mandy Hale

89. “God never promised we wouldn’t know pain. He isn’t the author of it, but He isn’t the bodyguard blocking it from us, either. Jesus Himself knew intense, agonizing pain. The worst kind, as a matter of fact. Betrayal. False accusations. A humiliating death on a cross for a crime He didn’t commit. No, God never promised us we wouldn’t know pain. That we wouldn’t know Ground Zero moments and dark nights of the soul. What He DID promise was to be with us in the midst of our pain.”

— Mandy Hale

90. “If God requires us to surrender one dream, it may be because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one.”

— Mandy Hale

91. “The whole world can be behind you and believe in you, but if you can’t believe in yourself, you’re only going to stay stuck.”

— Mandy Hale

92. “When you live in shackles to other people’s opinions and moods and judgments, it is the equivalent of becoming a human streamer. And you’re better than that. You’re meant to be in the driver’s seat of your life, not running alongside the car, trying to catch up!”

— Mandy Hale

93. “You haven’t yet learned that your worth isn’t found in him. Or in the man before him. Or in any man at all.”

— Mandy Hale

94. “Sometimes it takes being left seemingly with nothing to realize that you are everything. To see that you held the key to your own happiness and self-worth and belonging and wholeness all along.”

— Mandy Hale

95. “Timing is everything. What good is finding the RIGHT thing if it’s the WRONG time?”

— Mandy Hale

96. “It is often in our loneliest times that God speaks the loudest.”

— Mandy Hale

97. “That’s why it’s so dangerous to place our identities in anything other than Christ; people leave and die, jobs end, looks fade, and money is lost.”

— Mandy Hale

98. “There’s a quote by Ethel Person that says: “People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.”

— Mandy Hale

99. “You lose everything you think is so vital to your very existence because God longs for you not just to see but to truly grasp that all you really need in this life is Him.”

— Mandy Hale

100. “It is only after surrendering what we think our lives are supposed to be that we can step into everything that our lives are meant to be.”

— Mandy Hale