607 Quotes by Brené Brown

Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love, and so I have to be in the arena if I’m going to live in alignment with my values.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.

How can we embrace rest and play if we’ve tied our self-worth to what we produce?

Sufficiency isn’t two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn’t a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn’t an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.

Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It’s when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.

Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.

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.

There’s no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

It’s not about ‘what can I accomplish?’ but ‘what do I want to accomplish?’ Paradigm shift.