Top 250 Rachel Hollis Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Not because I’m especially gifted, but because I’m especially dedicated to improving along the way.”

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202. “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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203. “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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204. “The God who made the moon and the stars and the mountains and the oceans, the Creator who did all of those things, believed that you and your baby were meant to be a pair. That doesn’t mean you’re going to be a perfect fit. That doesn’t mean you won’t make mistakes. It does mean that you need not fear failure because you can’t fail a job you were created to do.”

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205. “I will not tell her that a man’s work is only out in the world or that a woman’s work is inside the home. If she chooses to stay at home, then we will support her with all our hearts; but we will never teach her that there’s only one kind of woman to be.”

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206. “You understand that just because you’ll keep waking up each morning doesn’t mean that it won’t cost you something to keep going.”

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

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209. “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.”

— Rachel Hollis

210. “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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211. “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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212. “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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213. “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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214. “Allowing someone else to talk you out of your pursuits is quite possibly one of the hardest habits to break but one of the greatest behaviors to adopt.”

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215. “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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216. “Failure means that you’re living. Failure means you’re trying.”

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

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

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

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

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

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223. “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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224. “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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225. “Just call it salami!”

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

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227. “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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228. “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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229. “I’m not trying to develop a community of fans. I’m trying to develop a community of leaders.”

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230. “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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231. “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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232. “You men deserve whatever rabbit-boiling scenario dating crazy women gets you.”

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233. “As an artist or a creator, you have to decide. You have to choose a path or live the rest of your life slowly killing your ability to do great work for fear of what others will think. You have to decide that you care more about creating your magic and pushing it out into the world than you do about how it will be received.”

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234. “Consequently, when I began to understand that the entire purpose for my life wasn’t to please someone else, I began to consider things I hadn’t before. Like, what if I could make decisions for myself? What if I stopped making every choice in my life about what would please others most? What if sometimes I just did what I wanted to do? What if I stopped asking permission?”

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235. “Is your schedule populated by things that will make your life better, or is it dictated by everybody else’s wants and needs?”

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

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237. “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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238. “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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239. “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.”

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240. “I looked for joy. I looked for peace.”

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241. “We need to start having a very real conversation about why we accept truths about ourselves as women that we would never consider for men. If it’s not true for everyone, then it shouldn’t be true for anyone.”

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

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

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244. “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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245. “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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246. “You have to choose not to compare.”

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247. “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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248. “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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249. “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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250. “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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