Top 250 Rachel Hollis Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Embracing the idea that you can want things for yourself even if nobody else understands the whys behind them is the most freeing and powerful feeling in the world.”

— Rachel Hollis

52. “Time passed and seasons changed, and my new city eventually taught me one of the most vital lessons I’ve ever learned. Moving or traveling or getting away? It’s just geography. Moving doesn’t change who you are. It only changes the view outside your window. You must choose to be happy, grateful, and fulfilled. If you make that choice every single day, regardless of where you are or what’s happening, you will be happy.”

— Rachel Hollis

53. “If you want to actually achieve your dreams, you can only pursue one at a time. I believe completely in going all in on one single dream, and when you achieve that one, then you can move on to the next. But splitting your attention is splitting your focus and your energy, which means you’re not likely to make much progress.”

— Rachel Hollis

54. “I don’t care what religion you were raised in. You weren’t taught guilt and shame by your creator. You were taught guilt and shame by people. That means whatever your people thought was shameful is what you learned to be ashamed of. Whatever your family or the influential people in your life thought was something to feel guilty about is what you have guilt about now.”

— Rachel Hollis

55. “I am still here because I refuse to let anything or anyone decide what I get to have. I am still here because I refuse to let my trauma have the last word. I am still here because I will not let a nightmare have more power than my dreams. I am still here because I didn’t allow the hard time to make me weak; I willed it to make me strong.”

— Rachel Hollis

56. “Someone else’s opinion of you is none of your business.” Let me say that again for the people in the cheap seats.”

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57. “Sometimes you aim for the sun and fall short. But if you keep fighting for your dream, it becomes something so much better than you even knew to hope for. That.”

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58. “Be mindful of the people you hang out with, the words you use, and the way you present yourself to the world around you. Pay attention to the times or the circumstances that make you feel the most self-assured, and then work to cultivate more opportunities like those.”

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59. “If you’re going to blame your hard times for all the things that are wrong in your life, you better also blame them for the good stuff too!”

— Rachel Hollis

60. “Moving doesn’t change who you are. It only changes the view outside your window. You must choose to be happy, grateful, and fulfilled. If you make that choice every single day, regardless of where you are or what’s happening, you will be happy.”

— Rachel Hollis

61. “Because the world needs your spark. The world needs your energy. The world needs you to show up for your life and take hold of your potential! We need your ideas. We need your love and care. We need your passion. We need your business models. We need to celebrate your successes. We need to watch you rise back up after your failures. We need to see your courage. We need to hear your what if. We need you to stop apologizing for being who you are and become who you were meant to be.”

— Rachel Hollis

62. “I am successful because I refused to take no for an answer.”

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63. “What’s good will always be good, and one of the most awful, beautiful things about the hard seasons is that unless we experience hardship, we’ll never truly appreciate and remember the good that was always good.”

— Rachel Hollis

64. “It is not your child’s job to hold space for you to fall apart. Call your therapist, your priest, your rabbi, or your best friend but don’t you dare ask your kids to carry you through a hard season.”

— Rachel Hollis

65. “You, all of you, any of you. Stop waiting for someone else to fix your life! Stop assuming that someday it will magically improve on its own. Stop presuming that if you only had the right job, the right man, the right house, the right car, the right whatever that your life will become what you’ve always dreamed of. Be honest about who you are and what you need to do to make change.”

— Rachel Hollis

66. “Mom, you should parent in whatever way works for your family and spend less time worrying about other people’s perceptions of how you’re doing. Can we stop being so hard on ourselves and instead focus on the good work we are doing, the results of which are evident in the awesome little people we’re raising?”

— Rachel Hollis

67. “Friends, it’s not about the goal or the dream you have. It’s about who you become on your way to that goal.”

— Rachel Hollis

68. “Confidence is the belief that you can count on yourself.”

— Rachel Hollis

69. “Your dream is worth fighting for, and while you’re not in control of what life throws at you, you are in control of the fight.”

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70. “If I had a power color, it would definitely be sparkle.”

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71. “Ambition is not a bad thing. In fact, the definition is downright poetic: “a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work.”1.”

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72. “Some days you feel so discouraged you want to cry. Go ahead and cry. Rend your garments and wail to the heavens like some biblical mourner. Get it all out. Then dry your eyes and wash your face and keep on going.”

— Rachel Hollis

73. “If you spend your day looking for blessings – here’s the magic – you’ll find them.”

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74. “Don’t fear your own weakness, fear drowning in despair for the rest of your time on earth because you were too afraid to confront your pain.”

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75. “At some point you grow up enough to understand that many people here on earth are different from you; and what you do with that knowledge defines much of your story.”

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76. “And what if I told you that even in spite of my confessions – be they funny, embarrassing, painful, or gross – I am at peace with myself? That I love who I am even when I do things I’m not proud of?”

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77. “This amazing thing happens when you start to grow in one area of your life: other areas improve with it. If you drop a handful of pebbles into a lake, you’ll move the water around a bit. If you drop a boulder into a lake – meaning, if you put all your energy into one area – the impact is incredible. The ripple effects of that choice spread out in all directions.”

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78. “The precious life you’ve been given is like a ship navigating its way across the ocean, and you’re meant to be the captain of the vessel. Certainly there are times when storms toss you around or cover the deck with water or break the mast clean in half – but that’s when you need to fight your way back, to throw all the water off the boat bucket by bucket. That’s when you battle to get yourself back to the helm. This is your life. You are meant to be the hero of your own story.”

— Rachel Hollis

79. “Learning to rest is an ongoing process. Like any other lifelong behavior, I constantly fight the desire to slip back into the role I’ve played for so long.”

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80. “Not having the knowledge just makes you teachable, not stupid. Not having the experience just makes you eager, not ignorant.”

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81. “When you’re in the midst of a crisis, in the heart of the storm, the only thing you can and should focus on is your present. Focus on the day you’re in. If this day feels too big, focus on the next hour and how to care for yourself for those sixty minutes inside of it. Once you gain strength in your present, then you will find the space and energy you need to dream about the future. Only.”

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82. “Someone else’s opinion, or maybe your own, but either way, it is not grounded in any actual reality other than the weight you give it. So how much of your life are you living – or rather, not living – because you’ve been treating an opinion as a truth?”

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83. “What I want to say is that we all judge each other, but even though we all do it, that’s not an excuse. Judging is still one of the most hurtful, spiteful impulses we own, and our judgments keep us from building a stronger tribe... or having a tribe in the first place. Our judgment prohibits us from beautiful, life-affirming friendships. Our judgment keeps us from connecting in deeper, richer ways because we’re too stuck on the surface-level assumptions we’ve made. Our judging has to stop.”

— Rachel Hollis

84. “Having something to work toward gives us purpose. Achieving new milestones, even little ones, gives us a sense of accomplishment and pride.”

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85. “You have the ability to change your life. You’ve always had the power, Dorothy. You just have to stop waiting for someone else to do it for you. There is no easy way out of this; there is no life hack. Just you and your God-given strength and how much you desire change.”

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86. “You are enough. Today. As you are. Stop beating yourself up for being on the beginning side of yet, no matter what age you are. Yet is your potential. Yet is a promise. Yet is what keeps you moving forward. Yet is a gift, and you are enough to get to the other side of it.”

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87. “You can survive losing a piece of your heart without losing the core of who you are.”

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88. “Imagine all of the things you would have missed today if you’d only been out here for yourself.”

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89. “Other people don’t get to tell you what you can have! Someone else doesn’t get to tell you who you can be! The world doesn’t get to decide what you get to try. You are the only one who can make that decision.”

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90. “So many people think that one thing, one opportunity, is going to make them a success at everything. The reality is that success comes by doing fifty things over and over and over and over. Intensity is not as important as consistency.”

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91. “Momentul cel mai bun pentru plantarea unui copac a fost acum 20 de ani. Al doilea cel mai bun moment este acum.”

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92. “There are a hundred ways to learn to swim and one very easy way to drown, and that is by being unwilling to admit you’re drowning in the first place.”

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93. “Life is not supposed to overwhelm you at all times. Life isn’t meant to be merely survived – it’s meant to be lived.”

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94. “I used to read those bits about finding your other half, and I totally bought into it. But that’s not the way it works. Two half people don’t make a whole. You’ve got to be completely whole on your own before you can be one half of anything.”

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95. “I wouldn’t be who I am were it not for my childhood. I wouldn’t be where I am without the work ethic instilled in me by my father. The same man who praised my achievement might have unintentionally taught me to chase it a bit too much, but you can’t blame the past for the things that went wrong if you aren’t also willing to be thankful for the things that went right. Digging into the whys of how I behave as an adult are what make me able to overcome unhealthy habits.”

— Rachel Hollis

96. “Women are taught that to be a good woman you need to be good for other people. If your kids are happy, then you’re a good mom. If your husband is happy, you’re a good wife. How about a good daughter, employee, sister, friend? All of your value is essentially wrapped up in other people’s happiness. How can anyone successfully navigate that for a lifetime? How can anyone dream of more? How can anyone follow their what if, if they need someone else to approve of it first?”

— Rachel Hollis

97. “It’s usually our opposites who complement us best, because they’re the only ones who can balance us out.”

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98. “Finding the courage to be honest about who you are or what you’re going through is like throwing yourself into the deep end of the pool and fighting to swim once you hit the cold water. It won’t necessarily be pleasant, but once you’re in, it’s done. The longer you live in a state of honesty, the easier it becomes to simply exist there all the time.”

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99. “The truth is, it doesn’t matter what they think of you; it matters what you think of you. Hard as it is to reconcile, someone else’s opinion only holds power if you allow it to. If you actively take steps and intentionally begin to live without obsessing over what other people think, it will be the most freeing decision of your life.”

— Rachel Hollis

100. “Because it’s impossible to go somewhere new, to become something new, without first acknowledging where you are.”

— Rachel Hollis