80 great Coco Chanel phrases to succeed in life

CelebritiesThe designer gave some of the most inspiring statements for women around the world.

By Violeta Valdes

one.

"I don't do fashion, I am fashion."

two.

"My life did not please me, so I created my life."

3.

"I made it up assuming that everything I didn't like would have an opposite that I would love."

Four.

“The bravest act is to think for yourself. Aloud".

5.

“How many worries disappear when you decide to be 'someone' instead of 'something'”.

6.

"If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing."

7.

"The only way to be irreplaceable is always to be different."

8.

"Tough times awaken an instinctive desire for authenticity."

9.

"Don't waste time crashing into a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

10.

“During my childhood I only longed to be loved. Every day I thought about how to kill myself; although, deep down, she was already dead. Only pride saved me."

eleven.

"She triumphs with what she learns."

12.

"If you're sad, put on more lipstick and attack."

13.

"Freedom is always elegant."

14.

"Keep your head, your heels, and your principles high."

fifteen.

"There are no ugly women, only lazy women."

16.

"You can be beautiful at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life."

17.

"A woman should be two things: elegant and fabulous."

18.

"Elegance is not about putting on a new dress."

19.

"A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life."

twenty.

"Beauty begins the moment she decides to be herself."

twenty-one.

"A woman is the age she deserves."

22.

“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. It's up to you to deserve the face you have at fifty."

23.

"I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without tidying up a bit... even if it's just for politeness."

24.

“Be elegant. Be anything, but don't be seedy."

25.

“Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, in the harshness of my voice, in the brightness of my eyes, in my vigorous, tormented face”.

26.

"A woman without perfume is a woman without a future."

27.

"Elegance implies renunciation."

28.

“I imposed black. It is still a strong color today. The black destroys everything around him”.

29.

"Elegance is not a privilege of those who have passed adolescence, but of those who have taken possession of their future."

30.

"A fashion that does not reach the streets is not fashion."

31.

“There is nothing as comfortable as a caterpillar and nothing as adorable as a butterfly. We need dresses that drag and dresses that fly. Fashion is both a caterpillar and a butterfly. Butterfly at night; caterpillar in the morning.

32.

“Women think of all colors except their absence. Black has it all. And also white. Her beauty is absolute. They represent perfect harmony.”

33.

“Fashion is architecture, a question of proportions”.

3. 4.

“Look for the woman in the dress. Without a woman, there is no dress.

35.

"Dress today as if you were going to meet your worst enemy."

36.

"A woman should wear perfume where she wants to be kissed."

37.

“Adornments, what science! Beauty, what a weapon**! Modesty, what elegance!”**

38.

"Beauty should begin in the heart and soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless."

39.

“Fashion is not something that only exists in dresses. Fashion is in the sky, in the streets. Fashion has to do with ideas, with the way we live, with what is happening”.

40.

“A nice dress may look good on a hanger, but that doesn't mean anything. It needs to be seen over the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, legs and waist."

41.

"The best color in the world is the one that flatters you."

42.

"Simplicity is the key to true elegance."

43.

“Fashion passes. Only the style remains."

44.

"A woman with good shoes cannot be ugly."

Four. Five.

"Perfume announces the arrival of a woman and lengthens her departure."

46.

“Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes if fashion reaches both."

47.

“Luxury must be comfortable; otherwise, it is not luxury.”

48.

“Dress vulgarly and they will remember the dress. Dress elegantly and they will remember the woman.”

49.

"Elegance occurs when the interior is as beautiful as the exterior."

fifty.

“Fashion claims the individual right to value the ephemeral”.

51.

“One cannot always be innovating. I want to create classics.”

52.

"I don't know why women are interested in having what men have, when one of the things that women have is men."

53.

"Coquetry is the triumph of the spirit over the senses."

54.

“There have been many Duchesses of Westminster. Chanel there is only one”.

55.

“Finding a man who loves you doesn't make you a manhunter. If you really hunted him down, he will change from a man to a fox, and tomorrow he will dig a hole and run away.”

56.

“There is time to work, and there is time to love. From there, there is no time for anything else.”

57.

"I do not care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all."

58.

“Passion passes. The boredom remains."

59.

"If you know that men are like children, you already know everything."

60.

"Youth is something very new: twenty years ago nobody mentioned it."

61.

"Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and discomfort."

62.

"Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion that accompanies death."

63.

“There is nothing worse than loneliness. She can help a man to fulfill himself, but she destroys a woman”.

64.

"Great loves must also be endured."

65.

"I never wanted to weigh more on a man than a bird."

66.

“Women have always been the strong ones. Men look for them as a pillow on which to rest their heads. They always long for the mother who had them as children.”

67.

“Women need beauty for men to love us; and stupidity**, so that we love men.”**

68.

"A woman doesn't have to be beautiful, she has to believe it."

69.

"You only live once. Make it fun."

70.

"If you want to be original, then she waits to be copied."

71.

"A woman can give everything with a smile and recover it later with a tear."

72.

“The best things in life are free. The second best are very, very expensive.”

73.

"There are people who have money and people who are rich."

74.

"Luxury is a need that begins when the need ends."

75.

"Often, those who achieve success are those who are unaware that it is possible to fail."

76.

"Only those who have no memory insist on their originality."

77.

"Good taste is good for certain authentic spiritual values: like taste itself."

78.

“Some people think that luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”

79.

"Not the appearance, is the essence. It's not the money, it is education. Its not the clothes, is the class".

80.

“I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I'll go to bed and stay there. I feel that life is a wonderful thing.”

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