Top 250 Rachel Hollis Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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.”

— Rachel Hollis

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

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203. “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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204. “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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205. “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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206. “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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207. “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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208. “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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209. “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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210. “It’s possible to pursue something for yourself, while simultaneously showing up well for the people you love.”

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

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

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216. “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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217. “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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218. “It happens when you stop asking permission to be yourself.”

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

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220. “Maturity isn’t something you wrap around you like a coat. Maturity is like the T-shirt you get for walking in a 5K: you can only put it on if you go through the experience first.”

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

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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. “You always feel behind and overwhelmed.”

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224. “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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225. “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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226. “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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227. “I looked for joy. I looked for peace.”

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228. “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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229. “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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230. “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.”

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231. “I indulge in silliness. I color with my boys. I draw on the ground with sidewalk chalk. I watch YouTube videos about how to do shimmery, smoky eyes and try to replicate it even if I have nowhere to go. I reach for silly, creative endeavors that serve no real purpose other than joy.”

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232. “I know what it feels like to want to change every single thing that made you who you were, as if becoming someone new might give you power over the mistakes you made.”

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233. “Failure means that you’re living. Failure means you’re trying.”

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

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235. “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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236. “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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237. “No, but I know how to make a Dr. Pepper cake,” I tell her confidently.”

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

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239. “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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240. “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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241. “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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242. “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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243. “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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244. “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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245. “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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246. “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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247. “Just call it salami!”

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

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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. “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