Top 250 Rachel Hollis Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “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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54. “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

55. “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.”

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

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58. “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?”

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59. “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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60. “So be careful about dressing your judgments up as accountability to make your conscience feel better.”

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61. “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.”

— Rachel Hollis

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

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

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

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

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66. “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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67. “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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68. “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.”

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69. “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.”

— Rachel Hollis

70. “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

71. “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.”

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72. “Only a small part of our population is encouraged to believe in themselves and their potential from childhood on. People raised with advantages tend to see more possibilities. People who were taught self-worth from a young age are more likely to believe in their capabilities as adults. People with more resources usually perceive a goal as more easily achieved than those who have less.”

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73. “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

74. “Obsessing over this person and why they did what they did will not serve you. You are not defined by the pain they inflicted – you are defined by what you turn that pain into.”

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75. “Having a drink will always be the easiest way out; it requires the least effort but demands the most in retribution.”

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76. “You’ve got to believe in yourself and believe that you’re capable of making changes to become whatever kind of person you want to be. As you read through this book, as you’re trying to figure out the person you want to be, remember the journey starts with the goal. It starts with finding the direction you want to go in and then figuring out how to build the habits that will get you there.”

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77. “We are afraid of so many things when it comes to our dreams, but the biggest fear is of being judged for having them in the first place.”

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78. “You know that expression “Go big or go home”? I never go home.”

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79. “Silly. Little. Girl.”

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80. “Ambition looks like you living in a way others won’t so you will have a life others can’t.”

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81. “Am fost invatata sa ma fac mica, dar ma nascusem cu o inima in care sa incapa doar visuri mari.”

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

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84. “Some days I feel as if I’m getting closer to the best version of me. Other days I eat cream cheese for dinner. But the gift of life is that we get another chance tomorrow.”

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85. “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!”

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86. “Dreams are things you hope for, for your life. Dreams are the things that occur to you as you go about your day.”

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87. “Our own negative self-talk can be more damaging than the emotional abuse heaped on us by a hateful parent. It’s also far more insidious because there’s nobody there to stop it, since we rarely even realize it’s happening. Beating ourselves up about all the things we think we’re doing wrong becomes a litany of white noise. Eventually we don’t even hear it anymore.”

— Rachel Hollis

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. “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.”

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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. “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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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. “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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94. “Friends, your struggles don’t mean that you’re weak; they mean you’re human. Your inexperience doesn’t mean you won’t succeed; it means you haven’t yet.”

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95. “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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96. “Our society makes plenty of room for complacency or laziness; we’re rarely surrounded by accountability.”

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97. “There are hundreds of ways to lose yourself, but the easiest of them all is refusing to acknowledge who you truly are in the first place.”

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98. “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.”

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99. “Your potential for improvement is exponential.”

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100. “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.”

— Rachel Hollis