Top 200 Brené Brown Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Joy comes to us in moments – ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.”

— Brené Brown

102. “We are a culture of people who’ve bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won’t catch up with us.”

— Brené Brown

103. “The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.”

— Brené Brown

104. “If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.”

— Brené Brown

105. “Knowledge is important, but only if we’re being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.”

— Brené Brown

106. “Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.”

— Brené Brown

107. “Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.”

— Brené Brown

108. “The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.”

— Brené Brown

109. “Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?”

— Brené Brown

110. “What we know matters, but who we are matters more. Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable.”

— Brené Brown

111. “Here’s what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we’re worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.”

— Brené Brown

112. “Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.”

— Brené Brown

113. “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.”

— Brené Brown

114. “Knowledge is only rumor until it lives in the bones.”

— Brené Brown

115. “The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.”

— Brené Brown

116. “We’re all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.”

— Brené Brown

117. “I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments, gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith.”

— Brené Brown

118. “Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.”

— Brené Brown

119. “Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don’t matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.”

— Brené Brown

120. “We can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.”

— Brené Brown

121. “Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame’s is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.”

— Brené Brown

122. “Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.”

— Brené Brown

123. “Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we’re hungry for.”

— Brené Brown

124. “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.”

— Brené Brown

125. “Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.”

— Brené Brown

126. “A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments.”

— Brené Brown

127. “I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.”

— Brené Brown

128. “Talk about your failures without apologizing.”

— Brené Brown

129. “Unused creativity is not benign.”

— Brené Brown

130. “We’re a nation hungry for more joy: Because we’re starving from a lack of gratitude.”

— Brené Brown

131. “Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.”

— Brené Brown

132. “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.”

— Brené Brown

133. “Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.”

— Brené Brown

134. “You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.”

— Brené Brown

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

— Brené Brown

136. “We cannot give our children what we don’t have.”

— Brené Brown

137. “I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.”

— Brené Brown

138. “Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.”

— Brené Brown

139. “Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.”

— Brené Brown

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

— Brené Brown

141. “If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way- especially shame, fear and vulnerability.”

— Brené Brown

142. “We’re a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.”

— Brené Brown

143. “Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.”

— Brené Brown

144. “I’m never more courageous than when I’m embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.”

— Brené Brown

145. “We cannot give our children what we don’t have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books.”

— Brené Brown

146. “I’m just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I’m alive.”

— Brené Brown

147. “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.”

— Brené Brown

148. “We have to be women we want our daughters to be.”

— Brené Brown

149. “In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone’s afraid to fail. As long as we’re afraid to fail, we’ll never come up with the big, bold ideas we need to solve these problems.”

— Brené Brown

150. “Nothing is as uncomfortable, dangerous and hurtful as believing that I’m standing on the outside of my life looking in and wondering what it would be like if I had the courage to show up and let myself be seen.”

— Brené Brown