Top 250 Rachel Hollis Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “You’re not going to achieve anything if you don’t get comfortable with the idea of achievement.”

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202. “You cannot keep living in the excuses of something that happened fifteen or twenty years ago. Because, seriously, how is that working for you?”

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203. “Like most working moms, my life is a constant juggling act.”

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204. “The dreams of your childhood aren’t easy to ignore or to leave behind. They’re the most powerful because you design them without boundaries or limits. It’s what makes growing up so hard, because even though life has shown you different, it’s hard to forget that there was a time when you believed anything was possible.”

— Rachel Hollis

205. “You think your dream is too big, too impossible? Write down all the times you did things nobody thought you could.”

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206. “The posts demonstrate how I am growing and learning, and I want them to grow and encourage other women too.”

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207. “Like a million other times in my life, I do my best to escape into the pages of a book. I.”

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208. “You have to know what to focus on, or you will never make progress.”

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209. “It’s no wonder so many mothers send me notes telling me they’ve lost themselves. Of course they have! If you live your life to please everyone else, you forget what used to make you you.”

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210. “So when given the choice between crushing it at the office or barely hanging on at home, I got in the habit of working, working, and working some more.”

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211. “They reminded me what grace looks like and that we all have hard times. They reminded me that when things are the toughest, that’s when you should most be seeking out your partner. They reminded me who it is I want to be.”

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212. “You have to choose not to compare.”

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213. “The longer you live in a state of honesty, the easier it becomes to simply exist there all the time.”

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214. “Women especially are so brutal on themselves, and they often talk themselves out of their own dreams before they even attempt them.”

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215. “Why do we say hello on Sunday mornings with the same tongues we use to lash others behind their backs a few days later?”

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216. “Magazines and TV shows spend a lot of time focusing on what to do when we fall off the wagon rather than teaching us how to stay on it in the first place.”

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217. “If I want to achieve any new thing in my life, the question is never, Can I do it? The question is always, What am I willing to give up in order to get it?”

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218. “Creating is the greatest expression of reverence I can think of because I recognize that the desire to make something is a gift from God. The freedom to carve out the time and have a safe place to create that art is a blessing of the highest level in a world where so many people are unable to have either. Every time I indulge in the art of creation without worrying about what the public will think of it is craft in its purest form – and craft can be any old thing at all. For me it’s writing.”

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219. “I’ve even purposely looked for stories full of exactly this kind of angst, because I love the emotion behind it so much.”

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220. “Work just as hard for fun moments, vacation moments, and pee-your-pants-laughing moments as you do for all the other things. I encourage you to take a walk, call a friend, have a glass of wine, enjoy a bubble bath, or take a long lunch. All of that work will be there when you get back, and a little time away can recharge your batteries and give you the energy to battle that ever-growing to-do list.”

— Rachel Hollis

221. “You always feel behind and overwhelmed.”

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222. “Recognizing the lies we’ve come to accept about ourselves is the key to growing into a better version of ourselves.”

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223. “Our judgments keep us from building a stronger tribe.”

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224. “If you aim at what you can hit, you’ll likely get there every time: never any higher, never any bigger, never any better.”

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225. “This is the worst! Worse than that time I finished all the books that had been published so far in a series a full year before the final book came out.”

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226. “That’s the incredible part about your dreams: nobody gets to tell you how big they can be.”

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227. “Maybe trying to live out your own love story means that you have less time to read about other people’s.”

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228. “Sometimes it was a small change and sometimes it was life-changing, but in every circumstance, I grew for having walked through it. 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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229. “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

230. “No, but I know how to make a Dr. Pepper cake,” I tell her confidently.”

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231. “Not because I’m especially gifted, but because I’m especially dedicated to improving along the way.”

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232. “I can write down words and send them out into the world and hope they find a home. Or I can hide my light under a bushel because I’m too afraid someone won’t like the glare.”

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233. “Inside my head is a tumble of incoherent screams that sound an awful lot like someone speaking in tongues. Apparently my inner voice is Pentecostal.”

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234. “How many times have your children watched you give up on yourself over and over and over?”

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235. “A lifetime of believing that your value – or lack thereof – is determined by your body or your face or your whatever means that you’ve got a lifetime of negative talk in your head playing on repeat. You need to replace that voice with something positive. You need to replace that voice with the opposite truth – the thing you most need to believe. So come up with a mantra and say it to yourself a thousand times a day until it becomes real.”

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236. “During the process we felt so alone, and seeking out a community who understood our path would have helped so much.”

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237. “It’s a simultaneous thing. You can’t live your life for their opinions, and you also can’t keep blaming them. You need to embrace your path. You need to accept that whatever happened did happen and choose to be mindful of the steps that you’ve got to take now to heal and get past those things. You cannot keep living in the excuses of something that happened fifteen or twenty years ago. Because, seriously, how is that working for you?”

— Rachel Hollis

238. “Were it not for my therapist, I never would have understood the connection between my childhood insecurities and my adult accomplishments. Were it not for my therapist, I never would have realized that the drive for.”

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239. “The issue wasn’t that I didn’t know who I was; the problem was that I didn’t know who I had allowed myself to become.”

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240. “Early on in this career, though, I realized that a lot of women look at lifestyle imagery as what they should aspire to be.”

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241. “Nobody’s entire legacy is based on a single moment, but rather the collection of one’s experiences.”

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242. “But sister, please, please, please stop allowing your fear of getting it wrong to color every beautiful thing you’re doing right.”

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243. “Imagine living your motherhood out from now until forever, without guilt.”

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244. “No one can sad listening to Frankie Valli.”

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245. “We have chocolate in common – that’s enough.”

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246. “It’s going to be a journey and you’re going to have to fight to get where you want to go, but it’s also going to be worth it.”

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247. “There isn’t one right way to be a woman. There isn’t one right way to be a daughter, friend, boss, wife, mother, or whatever else you categorize yourself as. There are so many different versions of each and every style on this planet, and beauty lives in that dichotomy. The kingdom of God is in that dichotomy.”

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248. “Just call it salami!”

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249. “Around this same time, I decided to cut my own bangs with my dad’s mustache scissors.”

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250. “I stopped comparing myself to other people, and I also stopped comparing myself to whomever I thought I was supposed to be.”

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