Top 100 Mandy Hale Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.”

— Mandy Hale

52. “The person you’re meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged or given an ultimatum.”

— Mandy Hale

53. “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

54. “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

55. “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

56. “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

57. “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

58. “The desires of your heart were not put there by accident. Follow them.”

— Mandy Hale

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

62. “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

63. “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

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

— Mandy Hale

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

— Mandy Hale

66. “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

67. “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

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

— Mandy Hale

69. “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

70. “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

71. “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

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

— Mandy Hale

73. “Nothing, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, happens to you without serving a greater purpose.”

— Mandy Hale

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

— Mandy Hale

75. “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

76. “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

77. “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

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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

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

— Mandy Hale

82. “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

83. “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

84. “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

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

— Mandy Hale

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

— Mandy Hale

87. “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

88. “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

89. “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

90. “Underneath all the thousands of seemingly insignificant decisions we make every single day, something bigger is at work, something pushing us toward our destiny. There is a divine plan for our lives. God knows who we are, where we’re meant to be, and how to get us there. He knew.”

— Mandy Hale

91. “God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause.”

— Mandy Hale

92. “How different things could go when you included God in the plan.”

— Mandy Hale

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

— Mandy Hale

94. “Because sometimes, even when you see someone headed for a collision, all you can do is step out of the way and let it happen, hoping there will be something left to salvage after the wreckage is cleared.”

— Mandy Hale

95. “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

96. “That’s the thing about fear. It can only hang around until faith enters the room, then it’s forced to flee.”

— Mandy Hale

97. “Learn from your failure’s; do not prevent misfortune from teaching you.”

— Mandy Hale

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

— Mandy Hale

99. “When we overthink, we stop acting boldly and hide behind.”

— Mandy Hale

100. “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