Daily Inspiration Quote by Phylicia Rashad

Rashad’s line lands because it refuses the soft-focus myth of self-actualization without swinging into nihilism. “There’s always something” is a quietly radical premise: the obstacle isn’t a one-off villain you defeat in act two, it’s the permanent background noise of life. Doubt, aging, bills, bias, missed timing, other people’s expectations. The sentence is built to feel relentless, like weather. That’s the subtext: you’re not broken for feeling interrupted; interruption is the default setting.

Then she flips it. Not with inspirational confetti, but with a blunt fork in the road: “take it” or “keep on moving.” The genius is the smallness of the choice. She doesn’t promise you’ll become who you wanted to be; she insists you can decide what to do with the suggestion that you won’t. “Take it” reads like swallowing someone else’s verdict and letting it calcify into identity. “Keep on moving” isn’t triumph; it’s motion as survival strategy, a commitment to process over fantasy.

Coming from an actress whose career has included embodying competence and dignity under pressure, the line also carries cultural context: for Black women especially, the world is full of “suggestions” about limits. Rashad doesn’t frame resilience as a personality trait; she frames it as a practice. The quote works because it’s unsentimental about the forces that shape you, and still protective of the one thing they can’t fully seize: your next step.