Top 250 Rachel Hollis Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Nonjudgmental friends. We often become whomever we surround ourselves with. If your friends are full of gossip and vitriol, I promise you’ll start to develop the habit. 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.”

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

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203. “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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204. “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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205. “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.”

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206. “I care more about changing the world than I do about its opinion of me.”

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207. “Don’t tell me you don’t have it in you to want something more for your life. Don’t tell me you have to give up because it’s difficult. This is life or death too. This is the difference between living a life you always dreamed of or sitting alongside the death of the person you were meant to become.”

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208. “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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209. “You’ve lived through tougher things than this. Don’t give up now!”

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

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211. “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.”

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212. “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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213. “You’re not going to achieve anything if you don’t get comfortable with the idea of achievement.”

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

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215. “When it comes to your dreams, no is not an answer. The word no is not a reason to stop. Instead, think of it as a detour or a yield sign. No means merge with caution. No reminds you to slow down – to re-evaluate where you are and to judge how the new position you’re in can better prepare you for your destination.”

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

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217. “I can’t even begin to keep up, and the stress of trying to do so can make me crazy.”

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218. “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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219. “We can simply adjust our posture to consider a wider, more inclusive community. If we adjust our posture, it will change the way we speak. If we adjust our posture, it will change the way we listen. If we adjust our posture, we will see the person, not the category they fall into.”

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220. “Finding your goal, focusing in on it, and learning to work to get closer to it every day is possible for anyone. Finding your goal takes some soul-searching and some clarity, but the other two? Having focus and being productive enough to get closer to where you want to go? Those are just habits. If you don’t already have them, it’s only because you haven’t developed them yet. Not because they’ll never be yours.”

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221. “Daca e sa-ti spun ceva, daca e sa te conving de ceva, acel ceva este ca esti facuta pentru mai mult. Esti facuta sa ai visurile pe care ti-e frica sa le ai. Esti facuta sa faci lucrurile pentru care crezi ca nu esti calificata. Esti facuta sa fii un lider. Esti facuta sa-ti aduci contributia. Esti facuta sa aduci o schimbare pentru totdeauna, si in comunitatea ta, si in lumea intreaga. Esti facuta sa fii mai mult decat esti astazi.”

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222. “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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223. “Life is not supposed to overwhelm you at all times. Life isn’t meant to be merely survived – it’s meant to be lived. Seasons or instances will inevitably feel out of your control, but the moments when you feel like you’re drowning are supposed to be brief. They should not be the whole of your existence! 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.”

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224. “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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225. “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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226. “My uncertainty is proof that I was trying to grow.”

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227. “Fii de treaba sau vezi-ti de treaba.”

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228. “The problem with most things in life is that the activity you want to do – the bad habit – offers a quicker reward than the thing that’s better for you.”

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229. “If you’re lucky, your legacy will be a lifetime in the making.”

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230. “By embracing your calling and refusing to hide your glow, you wouldn’t just make your world brighter, you’d light the way for the women who come behind you.”

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231. “Nobody gets to tell you how big your dreams can be.”

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232. “So I made a decision. I will do my best, and I will trust that my best is exactly what God intended for these babies.”

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233. “I am successful because I have never once believed my dreams were someone else’s to manage. That’s the incredible part about your dreams: nobody gets to tell you how big they can be.”

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234. “I’m not trying to develop a community of fans. I’m trying to develop a community of leaders.”

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235. “Go home and do nothing. Sit around, watch TV, spend an entire day on the sofa. Discover that your world doesn’t implode without you going a hundred miles an hour. Get up the next day and do it again.”

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236. “Ambition looks like waking up early; it looks like working after the kids are in bed. Ambition looks like adopting a willingness to admit to the things you don’t know and asking for help or doing the research or becoming your own best mentor. Ambition looks like you living in a way others won’t so you will have a life others can’t.”

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237. “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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238. “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.”

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239. “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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240. “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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241. “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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242. “It’s possible to pursue something for yourself, while simultaneously showing up well for the people you love.”

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243. “Who are Bella and Edward?” I shrug off the question and don’t turn around as I ask, “What?” “Or Mac and Jericho? How about Jamie and Claire?”

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244. “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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245. “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?”

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246. “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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247. “There is another option – one people rarely cling to – embrace the madness. Interestingly enough, the people I know who do this best are the ones whose lives are the most chaotic of all. They’re my friends whose husbands are serving overseas. They’re the women I know who are raising special-needs children. They’re the single mamas working three jobs. I believe it’s because they learned a long time ago that there is beauty in the chaos, as well as freedom in not trying to fight against the tide.”

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248. “It’s been on my mind a lot lately – what I grew up understanding versus what I believe now.”

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249. “I will not hold space for your expectations, your recriminations, or your judgment.”

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250. “You were made to be more than you are today and – this is the important part – your version of more might not look like my more, or hers.”

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