Courage Vulnerable Quotes

#1. Standing in the ring of fire, the eye of the storm, the vortex of pain and pressure is simultaneously the most vulnerable and most powerful place to be. Here we embody paradox. We stand our ground and surrender completely. Here we know the full power of the Feminine.

Lucy H. Pearce

#2. To live with courage, purpose, and connection - to be the person whom we long to be - we must again be vulnerable. We must ... show up, and let ourselves be seen.

Brene Brown

#3. I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

John F. Kerry

#4. Compassion speaks with a slight accent. She was a vulnerable child, miserable in school, cold, shy ... In ninth grade she was befriended by Courage. Courage lent Compassion bright sweaters, explained the slang, showed her how to play volleyball.

J. Ruth Gendler

#5. For doing so, and who prefer certainties to doubts. Join with those who are open and not afraid to be vulnerable: they understand that people can only improve once they start looking at what their fellows are doing, not in order to judge them, but to admire them for their dedication and courage.

Paulo Coelho

#6. The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable ...

Melody Beattie

#8. I respect everything I make fun of.

John Waters

#9. Ignorant intervention is absolutely a contributing factor to cycles of oppression. This

Jen Hatmaker

#10. It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

John Eldredge

#11. It takes courage to say, "I need help" and to be vulnerable and accept advice from people who may be wiser than you are. It takes courage to die to ourselves so we can become fully alive in a love and hope and freedom that only come when we do push our pride away.

Anne Jackson

#12. We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

Stokely Carmichael

#13. Prayer requires that we stand in God's presence with open hands, naked and vulnerable, proclaiming to ourselves and to others that without God we can do nothing. As disciples, we find not some but all of our strength, hope, courage, and confidence in God. Therefore, prayer must be our first concern.

Henri Nouwen

#14. [T]o tell a good story, you need courage. Courage to fully become someone else, even if -- and especially if -- that person was a more vulnerable version of yourself.

Catherine Lowell

#15. To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

Criss Jami

#16. The bravest are the most vulnerable; they are also the ones most capable of reward.

Toni Sorenson

#17. Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.

Brene Brown

#18. When you're a political leader, when you represent the entire state or the entire country, not just Republicans or not just Democrats or not just the poor or not just the rich, you have to really represent everybody. No matter who contributes money, when you win, you represent everyone.

David Shuster

#19. I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

Gloria Steinem

#20. It's important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.

Nicole Scherzinger

#21. Here's the crux of the struggle: I want to experience your vulnerability but I don't want to be vulnerable. Vulnerability is courage in you and inadequacy in me. I'm drawn to your vulnerability but repelled by mine. As

Brene Brown

#22. It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#23. To be human is necessarily to be a vulnerable risk-taker; to be a courageous human is to be good at it

Jonathan Lear

#24. I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

Gerald Durrell

#25. The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

Sherry Turkle

#26. Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage

Shannon L. Alder

#27. "It gets better." - On his campaign against bullying.

Sergio Martinez

#28. Love is to give, commit, and trust completely; the courage to be vulnerable without the omniscience of another's virtue.

Ken Poirot

#29. I want to learn how to trust a man. I wanted to know what true, physical pleasure felt like. I wanted to find the courage to be vulnerable on my own terms, as my own choice.

Nina Lane

#30. Percy must have perceived, early in her marriage, that her husband's lechery was compulsive and incurable, but she was determined, like any other lover, to authenticate her suspicion.

John Cheever

#31. A historian is a risk-terrified prophet.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#32. The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#33. One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Aaron Klug

#34. Courage revealed itself in subtle ways, and often in your most vulnerable moments, when fear and the instinct for self-preservation urged you to flee and forsake others.

Kerry Alan Denney

#35. It takes courage to remove our masks. But it takes greater courage to allow those we care about to remove their own masks when they are with us. When we grant others the opportunity to be open and vulnerable, that is when we can see the truth. In them. And in ourselves.

Lisa Mangum

#36. A daring heart is vulnerable, but unless it is willing to be broken it will never know the power of true love.

Toni Sorenson

#37. The problem is, when we stop caring what people think and stop feeling hurt by cruelty, we lose our ability to connect. But when we're defined by what people think, we lose the courage to be vulnerable.

Brene Brown

#38. The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

Brene Brown