Brene Brown on Resilience Quotes

"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."

"The middle is messy, but it’s also where the magic happens."

"Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy."

"Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it."

"We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we cannot have both."

"The irony is that we attempt to disown our difficult stories to appear more whole or more acceptable, but our wholeness depends on the integration of all our experiences."

"If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall; this is the physics of vulnerability."

"Courage is contagious. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver."

"True belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world."

"Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy."

"You either walk inside your story and own it, or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness."

"The broken heart is what makes us human. The broken heart is what makes us capable of love."

"Perfectionism is a defensive move. It’s the belief that if we do things perfectly and look perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgment, and shame."

"Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need."

"If you are not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I'm not interested in your feedback."

"There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period."

"Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light."

"Failure can become our most powerful path to learning if we’re willing to get curious."

"Vulnerability is the only bridge to build meaningful connection."

"I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued."

"Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind."

"To love at all is to be vulnerable."

"The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows."

"Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty."

"When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending."

"A brave leader is someone who says I see you. I hear you. I don’t have all the answers, but I’m going to keep listening and asking questions."

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."

"We don’t have to do it all alone. We were never meant to."

"Hope is a function of struggle."

"Belonging is being somewhere where you want to be, and they want you. Fitting in is being somewhere where you want to be, but they don’t care one way or the other."

"What we know matters but who we are matters more."

"You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging."

"Don't grab at the easy story. The easy story is usually the one that protects our ego and keeps us from growing."