8 Powerful Brené Brown Quotes That'll Make You Dare To Lead

Brené Brown

Brené Brown describes vulnerability as uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. She believes that vulnerability is the most accurate way of measuring courage.

And having spend two decades studying about vulnerability, courage, shame, and empathy, she must certainly be onto something. The author has six #1 New York Times best-sellers like Dare to Lead.

Brené Brown's 2010 TED talk, The power of vulnerability, is one of the most viewed talks in the world. She is also the first reseacher to have a filmed lecture on Netflix called The Call to Courage.

Well, here is a curated collection of Brené Brown's best quotes and sayings that have been carefully hand-picked. Read on.

Brené Brown Quotes

Empathy is a strange and powerful thing. 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.’

Empathy is a strange and powerful thing. Empathy has no script. There is no right way or wrong way to do it. It’s simply listening,

Empathy is a choice. And it’s a vulnerable choice, because if I were to choose to connect with you through empathy, I would have to connect with something in myself that knows that feeling. In the face of a difficult conversation, when we see that someone’s hurt or in pain, it’s our instinct as human beings to try to make things better. We want to fix, we want to give advice. But empathy isn’t about fixing, it’s the brave choice to be with someone in their darkness — not to race to turn on the light so we feel better.

Empathy is a choice. And it’s a vulnerable choice, because if I were to choose to connect with you through empathy, I would have to

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No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.

No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because

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.

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.

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