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- Vulnerability & Courage Brene Brown Quotes
- Brene Brown Leadership Captions & Sayings
- Brene Brown Quotes About Shame
- Love & Relationship Quotations
- Confidence & Self Worth Quote Images
- Inspirational Brene Brown Sayings
- Brene Brown Quotes On Parenting
Vulnerability & Courage Brene Brown Quotes

1. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.” – Brene Brown

2. “I can confidently say that stories of pain and courage almost always include two things: praying and cussing. Sometimes at the exact same time.” – Brene Brown

3. “Stop walking through the world looking for confirmation that you don’t belong. You will always find it because you’ve made that your mission.” – Brene Brown

4. “Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.” – Brene Brown

5. “Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.” – Brene Brown

6. “Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‘faith.'” – Brene Brown

7. “When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.” – Brene Brown

8. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.” – Brene Brown

9. “Worrying about scarcity is our culture’s version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we’ve been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal, we’re angry, and scared, and at each other’s throats.” – Brene Brown

10. “Vulnerability is not about winning or losing. It’s having the courage to show up even when you can’t control the outcome.” – Brene Brown
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11. “You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.” – Brene Brown

12. “Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty.” – Brene Brown
Brene Brown Leadership Captions & Sayings

13. “Courage is contagious. A critical mass of brave leaders is the foundation of an intentionally courageous culture. Every time we are brave with our lives, we make the people around us a little braver and our organizations bolder and stronger.” – Brene Brown

14. “When we own our stories, we avoid being trapped as characters in stories someone else is telling.” – Brene Brown

15. “There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.” – Brene Brown
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16. “We can talk about courage, and love, and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we’re willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.” – Brene Brown

17. “The willingness to show up changes us. It makes us a little braver each time.” – Brene Brown

18. “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

19. “To me, a leader is someone who holds her – or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.” – Brene Brown

20. “How can we expect people to put value on our work when we don’t value ourselves enough to set and hold uncomfortable boundaries?” – Brene Brown

21. “When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.” – Brene Brown
Brene Brown Quotes About Shame

22. “If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.” – Brene Brown

23. “You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.” – Brene Brown
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24. “Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.” – Brene Brown

25. “Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.” – Brene Brown

26. “What we don’t need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human.” – Brene Brown

27. “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

28. “Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.” – Brene Brown

29. “Numb the dark and you numb the light.” – Brene Brown
Love & Relationship Quotations

30. “Show up for people in pain and don’t look away.” – Brene Brown

31. “Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed, and rare.” – Brene Brown

32. “I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.” – Brene Brown

33. “Our sense of worthiness – that critically important piece that gives us access to love and belonging – lives inside of our story.” – Brene Brown

34. “The mark of a wild heart is living out the paradox of love in our lives. It’s the ability to be tough and tender, excited and scared, brave and afraid – all in the same moment. It’s showing up in our vulnerability and our courage, being both fierce and kind.” – Brene Brown

35. “We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.” – Brene Brown

36. “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
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37. “When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.” – Brene Brown
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38. “Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” – Brene Brown

39. “For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.” – Brene Brown

40. “It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.” – Brene Brown

41. “Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.” – Brene Brown

42. “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

43. “I don’t trust a theologian who dismisses the beauty of science or a scientist who doesn’t believe in the power of mystery.” – Brene Brown

44. “I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me, it’s one day at a time.” – Brene Brown

45. “Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning, and purpose to our lives.” – Brene Brown

46. “You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.” – Brene Brown

47. “To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.” – Brene Brown

48. “Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.” – Brene Brown

49. “Talk about your failures without apologizing.” – Brene Brown
Inspirational Brene Brown Sayings

50. “People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses.” – Brene Brown

51. “At the end of the day, at the end of the week, at the end of my life, I want to say I contributed more than I criticized.” – Brene Brown

52. “What we know matters but who we are matters more.” – Brene Brown

53. “True belonging and self-worth are not goods; we don’t negotiate their value with the world.” – Brene Brown

54. “I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.” – Brene Brown

55. “When we feel good about the choices we’re making and when we’re engaging with the world from a place of worthiness rather than scarcity, we feel no need to judge and attack.” – Brene Brown

56. “But what we know now is that when we deny our emotion, it owns us. When we own our emotions, we can rebuild and find our way through the pain.” – Brene Brown

57. “Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be; embrace who you are.” – Brene Brown

58. “Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage.” – Brene Brown

59. “If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!” – Brene Brown
Brene Brown Quotes On Parenting

60. “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

61. “Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting .” – Brene Brown

62. “My husband’s a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can’t raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.” – Brene Brown

63. “I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.” – Brene Brown

64. “Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.” – Brene Brown

65. “First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.” – Brene Brown
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