Top 250 Rachel Hollis Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “When you’re looking for a community of women, look for the ones who want to build each other up instead of tear each other down.”

— Rachel Hollis

52. “Friends, personal growth is supposed to be personal. It’s not one size fits all. It has to be customized to you and the way you learn best, or it’s never going to stick. Be strict about your goal but flexible in how you get there.”

— Rachel Hollis

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53. “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.”

— Rachel Hollis

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

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55. “Nothing that lasts is accomplished quickly. Nobody’s entire legacy is based on a single moment, but rather the collection of one’s experiences. If you’re lucky, your legacy will be a lifetime in the making.”

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56. “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.”

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57. “Silly. Little. Girl.”

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58. “I think we function better mentally, emotionally, and physically when we take care of our bodies with nourishment, water, and exercise. The lie I used to believe was that my weight would define me, that it would speak volumes about who I was as a person. Today I believe it’s not your weight that defines you, but the care and consideration you put into your body absolutely does.”

— Rachel Hollis

59. “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

60. “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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61. “Whatever the dream, it’s yours, not mine. You don’t have to give any justification, because as long you’re not asking anyone to give you approval, then you don’t need anyone to give you permission. In fact, when you understand that you don’t have to justify your dreams to anyone else for any reason, that’s the day you truly begin to step into who you’re meant to be.”

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

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63. “You are allowed to want more for yourself for no other reason than because it makes your heart happy. You don’t need anyone’s permission, and you certainly shouldn’t have to rely on anyone’s support as the catalyst to get you there.”

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64. “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

65. “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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66. “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

67. “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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68. “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

69. “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

70. “No doesn’t mean that you stop; it simply means that you change course in order to make it to your destination.”

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71. “You are a warrior because of the trials you are going through, but don’t you dare squander the strength you have earned just because the acquisition of it was painful.”

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72. “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.”

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73. “You are a combination of the five people you hang out with most.”

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74. “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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75. “Sadness and pain are things you have to sit with and get to know or you’ll never be able to move on.”

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76. “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.”

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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. “Be strict about your goal but flexible in how you get there.”

— Rachel Hollis

79. “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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80. “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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81. “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

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

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

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85. “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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86. “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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87. “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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88. “Work just as hard for fun moments, vacation moments, and pee-your-pants-laughing moments as you do for all the other things.”

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89. “There’s zero pressure to be perfect now, so you can just have fun and get better. Your potential for improvement is exponential.”

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90. “Holding each other accountable comes from a place of love. Judgment comes from a place of fear, disdain, or even hate.”

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91. “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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92. “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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93. “Not having the knowledge just makes you teachable, not stupid. Not having the experience just makes you eager, not ignorant.”

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94. “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

95. “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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96. “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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97. “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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98. “I don’t believe that other people, no matter how much they care about me, will every truly know what goes on in my life and therefore, they don’t get any say in how I live it.”

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99. “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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100. “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