Brene Brown Quotes:
1.”Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.”
– Brene Brown
2.”You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”
– Brene Brown
3.”Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.”
– Brene Brown
4.”Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”
– Brene Brown
5.”Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.”
– Brene Brown
6.”The willingness to show up changes us, it makes us a little braver each time.”
– Brene Brown
7.”Connection is why we’re here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.”
– Brene Brown
8.”Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.”
– Brene Brown
9.”The truth is that falling hurts. The dare is to keep being brave and feel your way back up.”
– Brene Brown
10.”To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.”
– Brene Brown
11.”Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.”
– Brene Brown
12.”When we deny the story, it defines us. When we own the story, we can write a brave new ending.”
– Brene Brown
13.”The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.”
– Brene Brown
14.”Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.”
15.”You can’t get to courage without walking through vulnerability.”
– Brene Brown
16.”What we practice, we become.”
– Brene Brown
17.”You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.”
– Brene Brown
18.”When you have a sense of worthiness, you have a sense of love and belonging.”
– Brene Brown
19.”If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.”
– Brene Brown
20.”Perfectionism is a self-destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.”
– Brene Brown
21.”Empathy has no script. There is no right way or wrong way to do it. It’s simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of ‘You’re not alone.”
– Brene Brown
22.”If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.”
– Brene Brown
23.”Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone.”
– Brene Brown
24.”Shame needs three things to grow exponentially in our lives: secrecy, silence, and judgment.”
– Brene Brown
25.”Empathy is a choice, and it’s a vulnerable choice. Because in order to connect with you, I have to connect with something in myself that knows that feeling.”
– Brene Brown
26.”Joy comes to us in ordinary moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.”
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27.”Our job is not to deny the story, but to defy the ending—to rise strong, recognize our story, and rumble with the truth until we get to a place where we think, Yes. This is what happened. And I will choose how the story ends.”
– Brene Brown
28.”I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”
– Brene Brown
29.”Shame resilience is the ability to say, ‘This hurts. This is disappointing, maybe even devastating. But success and recognition and approval are not the values that drive me. My value is courage and I was just courageous. You can move on, shame.”
– Brene Brown
30.”If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.”
– Brene Brown
31.”Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.”
– Brene Brown
32.”I believe that what we regret most are our failures of courage, whether it’s the courage to be kinder, to show up, to say how we feel, to set boundaries, to be good to ourselves. For that reason, regret can be the birthplace of empathy.”
– Brene Brown
33.”The opposite of recognizing that we’re feeling something is denying our emotions. The opposite of being curious is disengaging. When we deny our stories and disengage from tough emotions, they don’t go away; instead, they own us, they define us.”
– Brene Brown
34.”The real questions for parents should be: ‘Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?’ If so, plan to make lots of mistakes and bad decisions. Imperfect parenting moments turn into gifts as our children watch us try to figure out what went wrong and how we can do better next time.”
– Brene Brown
35.”Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.”
– Brene Brown
36.”Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.”
– Brene Brown
37.”I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.”
– Brene Brown
38.”Worthiness doesn’t have prerequisites.”
– Brene Brown
39.”It’s not about ‘what can I accomplish?’ but ‘what do I want to accomplish?’ Paradigm shift.”
– Brene Brown
40.”Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process.”
– Brene Brown
41.”Don’t try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.”
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42.”What we know matters, but who we are matters more.”
– Brene Brown
43.”Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.”
– Brene Brown
44.”Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real.”
– Brene Brown
45.”Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
– Brene Brown
46.”Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them — we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.”
– Brene Brown
47.”Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”
– Brene Brown
48.”Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is ‘cor’ — the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant ‘To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.’ Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences — good and bad. Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as ‘ordinary courage.”
– Brene Brown
49.”The biggest potential for helping us overcome shame is this: We are ‘those people.’ The truth is…we are the others. Most of us are one paycheck, one divorce, one drug-addicted kid, one mental health illness, one sexual assault, one drinking binge, one night of unprotected sex, or one affair away from being ‘those people’ — the ones we don’t trust, the ones we pity, the ones we don’t let our kids play with, the ones bad things happen to, the ones we don’t want living next door.”
– Brene Brown
50.”When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.”
– Brene Brown
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