Best Big Sister Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Question." "Yes," Candace asked expectantly, eyes fixed on the dark street ahead. "Have you ever had to chose sides between a friend and a boyfriend?" Candace nodded. "Which side are you suppose to pick?" "The right one." "What if they're both right?" "They're not." "But they are," Melody insisted. "That's the problem." "No." Candace slowly rolled past a police cruiser. "They both think they're right. But who do you think is right? Which side represents the thing you think is worth fighting for?" Melody glanced out the window as though she was expecting the answer to be revealed on a neighbor's lawn. Every house except hers had the lights turned off. "I dunno." "You do," Candace insisted. "You just don't have the courage to be honest with yourself. Because then you'd have to do the thing you don't want to do, and you hate doing anything that's hard. Which is why you gave up singing and why you have no life and why you've always been a -" "Um okay! Can we get back to the part where you were sounding like Oprah?" "I'm just saying, Melly, what would you do if you weren't afraid? That's your answer. That's your side." She turned into the circular driveway and put the SUV in PARK. "And if you don't choose it, you're lying to yourself and everyone around you." She opened the door and grabbed her purse. "Oprah out!" The door slammed behind her.”

Choices Courage Advice Decisions Big Sister Choosing Sides

Book:Monster High

Source: Monster High

“How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally realize that those dark days and sleepless nights were pre-requisites to your becoming.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenticity and personal excellence, the recognition of your life’s purpose is nearing closer.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I think it all basically breaks down to something like this: You have to look and feel great first. If you eat well, exercise and get enough sleep, you will have ample energy and the proper self-confidence to create and produce beyond your wildest dreams! Looking great and radiating positive energy, while presenting your highest quality work, is what will always make you the most valuable and only logical choice in whatever it is that you reach for.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“As girls, we will do anything for the person whom we love. We will scale buildings in the rain or run through fire if it means saving our love’s life. There is absolutely nothing more life altering that the fire burning inside of our souls for the one we want most…”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Your passions don’t have to connect to one another and no one needs to sign off on them. Passion isn’t logical… it’s only the fuel which keeps our souls alive. Let it be that simple.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Although many things may still need to happen before you identify what your exact work will be, I know that every single person whom you’re meeting and every experience that you’re having is necessary to you discovering your purpose. They are points on a map leading you to the moment where a match will finally be lit and you will be able to see through the darkness.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Recognize that you have been chosen to be alive, right now, at this exact moment in time and know that none of that is random. There is something about you, your past or your future that is required at this exact moment in history. We need to know who you are and what you have been through.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“The only way that you can identify and then fulfill your life’s purpose is for you to love yourself, charge up your life and serve the world.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Finding yourself and creating a life that feels authentic and safe is the hardest, most important work that we will ever do and for girls, especially young girls, there is no one more equipped to do this work.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Sometimes you have to let go a little bit and travel the path of least resistance but this doesn’t mean that you quit when things get tough, as you are working towards a goal! It just means that you may only be able to see a rough draft of your final destination, right now, and that it’s safe to explore along the way.”

“For most of us free-thinking, wild hearts, our relationship with God or the Universe will go through peaks and valleys – transforming into new concepts and beliefs, completely disappearing, at times, only then to instantly explode back into existence by something even as small as a sunset!”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I’m sure it wasn’t easy being in your big sister’s shadow for 104 years. You complained about it a lot but I know you’d have been miserable without me. Well, I’m glad things have worked out the way they have, because you never had to be alone, Bessie Funny thing is, though, by leaving me here by myself, you're letting me get the last word. Ooooooh, I'm not sure you would have liked that! - Sarah L. Delany”

Loss Loneliness Lonely Little Sister Big Sister Lonely Person Centenarian By Yourself Getting The Last Word Going First

Book:On My Own at 107: Reflections on Life Without Bessie

Source: On My Own at 107: Reflections on Life Without Bessie

“Don’t stick up for him. I know he’s, like, your role model or whatever, but just … don’t.” “He’s not.” Foster fumbled with his seat belt. “You are.”

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Author:Emma Mills, First & Then

“Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it’s leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn’t right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Being a Dream Girl is never going to be about what you look like or how much you weigh. After all, our physical appearances are just reflections of our inner worlds. What makes you a Dream Girl is your emotional sensitivity, your self-awareness, and your ability to communicate who you are effectively and compassionately in the world.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“This is your life – not your parents’, teachers’ or significant other’s. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn’t feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get out – change your shoes and start walking.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Can you identify the source preventing you from feeling good every single day, from loving yourself unconditionally and making your dreams come true? Is it a voice in your head or a gut wrenching ache that compromises your inner peace and doesn’t allow you to accept the love around you? Is there one thing, or maybe many things, keeping you from forgiving your past and moving forward, tormenting you with lies like “You don’t deserve real love so just settle for whatever you can get,” “You’re not smart enough to achieve your dream so don’t even try,” or “Look at your past… you should hate yourself way more than you actually do!”? Welcome to your Little Monster.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity because it’s the path of least resistance for our souls – an energy force that wants nothing more than for us to honor and accept who we are and discover what we’re meant to do in the world.”

Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Everyone expected Emily to take care and take charge. It had always been this way. When her mother was sick, she'd filled out her own permission slips for school. When Jess signed up to bring home the kindergarten rabbit for the weekend, Emily took care of it. 'Look at Emily taking care of her sister,' her New Jersey aunts said to one another after the memorial service. There were no relatives from England. Her English grandparents had died before Emily was born, but the New Jersey aunts were full of admiration. 'What an angel. Look how good she is,' her father's sisters said. Emily knew she was not an angel, but the more she doubted, the better she behaved. At work she was the peacemaker. She wasn't just the chief executive officer of the company; she was the adult when her partners behaved like children.”

Responsible Peacemaker Big Sister Caretaker Emily Bach

Book:The Cookbook Collector

Source: The Cookbook Collector

“I've spent nearly three years managing a shipping firm," she pointed out. "After all the time I've spent around longshoremen, nothing could shock me now." "Maybe not," Luke conceded. "But Scotsmen have a special gift for cursing. I had a friend at Cambridge who knew at least a dozen different words for testicles." Merritt grinned. One of the things she enjoyed most about Luke, the youngest of her three brothers, was that he never shielded her from vulgarity or treated her like a delicate flower. That, among other reasons, was why she'd asked him to take over the management of her late husband's shipping company, once she'd taught him the ropes.”

Siblings Big Sister Merritt Sterling Marsdens

Book:Devil in Disguise

Source: Devil in Disguise

“My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.”

Source: Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)

“I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.”

Mother Sound Like Me Older Sister Big Sister

Author:Jill Abramson

“A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.”

Humans Bigs Kids Girl Left Cry Over You Being Human Wallets Big Sister

Author:R. J. Palacio

“At the end of the day, the only thing I ever wanted to feel was loved. So I think if I could give someone a piece of advice, it's really learn how to be kind to yourself. In all of our ugliness and all of our brokenness and our bad choices, to really learn to nurture that part of yourself that can be your own big sister in a way.”

Ifs Thinking Way Giving Feels Kind Ends Bigs Wanted Choices Pieces Advice If I Could The End Of The Day Be Kind Nurture Ugliness Brokenness Bad Choices Big Sister Be Kind To Yourself

Author:Sara Bareilles

“An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.”

“There's no better friend than a sister.”

Source: The Blessings of Friendship: A Friendship Treasury

“Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes.”

Bigs Brother Brothers And Sisters Never Change Sister Big Sister

Author:Janet Jackson

“I'm afraid that what most people don't know about me is that I'm very close to my brother and sister, who are 16 and 13, and I think I'm a pretty good big sister to them.”

People Thinking Knows Bigs Brother My Brother Brothers And Sisters Big Sister

Author:Naomie Harris

“I just simply believe in having purposeful relations, period. That's what its about at the end of the day. However, I do appreciate people that are individualistic, mainly because I'm an impressionable soul and my friends become my big sisters and brothers in a way.”

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Author:Aeriel Miranda

“America Ferrera is definitely one of my biggest role models, and she has been for the last three years. Like a big sister, someone I can look up to and aspire to be.”

Years Looks Has Beens I Can Bigs Lasts America Three Roles Models Look Up Role Models Three Years Aspire Big Sister

Author:Mark Indelicato

“I remember my sister and I - my big sister would get up on her chair in the kitchen and sing Mary Wells' "What's Easy for Two Is So Hard for One." It was 1966, and I was 10 years old.”

Years Wells Two Hard Bigs Remember Easy Get Up Kitchen Chairs My Sister Mary Big Sister

Author:Sharon Jones

“Honestly...how did I do as a big sister?”

Bigs Honestly Big Sister

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.”

Knows Littles Country Bigs Together Mother Nations Inspiring Wife Mom Married Daughter Grandmother Mothers Day Little Sister Big Sister Widowed

Author:Ann Romney

“Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.”

“Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.”

“My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.”

Firsts Bigs Jobs Big Sister

Author:Venus Williams

“I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.”

Ifs Want Love Hard Bigs Winning Sports Too Much Sister Big Sister

Author:Venus Williams

“If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore.”

Ifs Thinking Reason Bigs Annoying Big Sister

Book:What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Source: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

“Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.”

“I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.”

Bigs Pests Big Sister

Book:Ramona the Pest

Source: Ramona the Pest

“Whoa!" she says as I plow into her. " What are you DOING? Get off me!" I hang on tight. "Can't a girl just hug her big sister?" She stops fighting me. "Are you dying? Am I dying? Did Grandma die? I laugh. "No one died." "Then get off!”

Bigs Dies Girl Fighting Laughing Dying Died Hug Grandma Big Sister

Book:11 Birthdays: A Wish Novel

Source: 11 Birthdays: A Wish Novel

“Face it, you stupid little cookie maker,” Jenks said, almost sounding fond, “in the last couple of days you’ve seen what it’s like to be in a family, with all the touchy tempers and irritation that goes on. Now you get to see the other side, where we do stupid stuff for each other just because we like you. Rache is the little sister. Ivy’s the big sister. I’m the uncle from out of state, and you’re the rich nephew no one likes but we put up with you anyway because we feel sorry for you. Just let me help, huh? It won’t kill you.”

“Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!”

Source: The Pillars of the House, Or Under Wode, Under Rode

“But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to relieve you of them. They called you Sis. All your life people called you Sis, because that was what you were, or what you became - big sister, helpful sister, the one upon whom everyone depended, the one they all came to for everything from help with homework to a sliver under the fingernail.”

People Helping Bigs Might Responsibility Helpful Rebel Homework Sisterhood Fingernails Big Sister

Book:Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West

Source: Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West