Quotes About Vulnerability

#1. Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open

Jay Woodman

#2. Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

Kay Warren

#3. All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths.

John Gerzema

#4. Vulnerability is not about winning, and it's not about losing. It's about having the courage to show up and be seen.

Brene Brown

#5. I am never home, and it's hard to keep up with things that are good for you to have in life like relationships, whether they be romantic or friendship. I have to work twice as hard to make sure I don't just check out. That's what I mean by vulnerability.

Jen Kirkman

#6. I want to do a romantic comedy. Like a 'When Harry Met Sally' romantic comedy ... A really sweet, show-my-vulnerability kind of role.

Zoe McLellan

#7. As someone who is both an ethnic minority and openly gay, I often talk about how simply being who I am has given me a double awareness of the vulnerability that some Americans may be facing.

Mark Takano

#8. Baby, I'm sorry," he said dropping his forehead to mine in a rare moment of vulnerability. His voice was rough and shaky. "Help me. Please. I don't know what I'm doing here."
"What are you trying to do?" I asked.
He raised up, just enough to look me in the eye. "I'm trying to love you.

T.M. Frazier

#9. I came to understand that happiness and vulnerability are often the same thing.

Oliver Burkeman

#10. Funnily enough, I did a play called 'Jumpy' on the West End before I did 'Divergent,' and there was an essence of that character I played, called Cam, in Will. In the sense of his vulnerability, and ... he had a sense of humor that comes out of adversity, similar to Will.

Ben Lloyd-Hughes

#11. You must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this.

Anne Lamott

#12. Tread lightly." Vulnerability softened Bron's voice, as if he'd told her he loved her.

Aubrie Dionne

#13. America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

Oriana Fallaci

#14. I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.

Michael Zaslow

#15. No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching.

Mari Evans

#16. Leaders goal: Don't be afraid of vulnerability & transparency, (without being pitiful). People respond to authenticity.

Brian Houston

#17. Vulnerability is an endearing quality; we are naturally drawn to humble people.

Rick Warren

#18. ...God is not located in some far-off celestial abode but is met in the embrace of daily life; that spirituality is, quite simply, about vulnerability and openness and falling in love with solid ground.

Marilyn Lacey

#19. When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.

Marya Mannes

#20. The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.

John Bradshaw

#21. We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

Todd Gitlin

#22. Certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.

Erica Jong

#23. I could experience vulnerability if I just constantly gave myself away without ever taking time out once a day or a couple times a day or whatever it is I need to restore, whether it's more sleep, or whether it's going to see a movie or writing something new.

Jason Mraz

#24. I'm a guy so I equate vulnerability with fear.

John Rzeznik

#25. We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vulnerability strikes terror in our hearts. Lovelessness torments.

Bell Hooks

#26. Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on my controlled father. I wanted his freedom and his focus. To him, a family was an aquarium: controlled, contained. To the women I knew, a family was everything.

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#27. In order to be the kind of leader who demonstrates genuine interest in employees and who can help people discover the relevance of their work, a person must have a level of personal confidence and emotional vulnerability.

Patrick Lencioni

#28. To feel is to be vulnerable. To believe vulnerability is weakness is to believe that feeling is weakness.

Brene Brown

#29. Her vulnerability is open, but she's safe within it.

David Levithan

#30. Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.

Hunter Hayes

#31. If I "try" to play, I fail; if I force the play, I crush it; if I race, I trip. Any time I stiffen or brace myself against some error or problem, the very act of bracing would cause the problem to occur. The only road to strength is vulnerability.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#32. Apologizing makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Expressing gratitude makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Maybe there's something to this vulnerability/strength connection, eh?

Danielle LaPorte

#33. On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people.

Patrick Lencioni

#34. If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.

Charles R. Swindoll

#35. It takes strength to show vulnerability.

Miranda Lambert

#36. The boasts of men about their conquests would seem hollow since it's the vulnerability of women that fetches them their favors..

BS Murthy

#37. Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

Uta Hagen

#38. Once you've surrendered yourself to another, you've been conquered. Surrender = vulnerability. Vulnerability means someone else has the advantage over you. Still interested?

Donna Lynn Hope

#39. I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked.

Mariel Hemingway

#40. In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

Jan Egeland

#41. There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

M. Scott Peck

#42. Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of weakness and powerlessness, become part of the uncertainty, and give up control and self-determination.

Henri Nouwen

#43. Whatever fears, whatever sense of vulnerability may underlie such behavior, it also comes out of entitlement, the entitlement to inflict suffering and even death on other people. It breeds misery in the perpetrator and the victims. (The Longest War)

Rebecca Solnit

#44. The laughter was sour and not really directed at white women. It was a traditional ruse that was used to shield the black vulnerability; we laughed to keep from crying.

Maya Angelou

#45. That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.

Dennis Lehane

#46. Here's the bottom line: 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.

Brene Brown

#47. For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.

Rachel Sklar

#48. But vulnerability is the leading edge of truth. Being wiling to sacrifice a false life is the only way to live a true one.

Charles M. Blow

#49. Unless it hurts, unless there's some vulnerability there, I don't think you're going to get good photographs.

Martin Parr

#50. None of softwares are not complete, infallible, vulnerability. If you have a block of every attacking of every block there is an every attack.

Mehmet Kececi

#51. Wisdom comes to all of us when we open our hearts up to vulnerability.

Kyle Schmalenberg

#52. Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence can take over, and caution may be thrown to the wind.

Henry Petroski

#53. Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me.

Danielle Cormack

#54. It's only when someone really shows their vulnerability to another, and is accepted, flaws and all, can he or she really feel loved.

Brownell Landrum

#55. Faith minus vulnerability is fundamentalism

Brene Brown

#56. Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

Bill Gross

#57. Vulnerability lets in light.

A.D. Posey

#58. Sometimes we must yield control to others and accept our vulnerability so we can be healed.

Kathy Magliato

#59. Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

#60. She was a superhero. She was my hero. Therefore, moments when she allowed herself to display vulnerability were distressing. It was like watching Superman struggle through a bout of kryptonite exposure.

Penny Reid

#61. I think there's always a bit of insecurity in love, if you truly love somebody. If you open yourself up, if you allow yourself to be hurt, there's potential vulnerability. That's real love. Somebody can stomp all over you if you really love them, and you give them your heart anyway.

Fred Schruers

#62. Vulnerability is a pretty scary thing. You can feel naked in a lot of different ways.

Gwendolyn Heasley

#63. Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.

Cary Fukunaga

#64. Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.

Gary Kemp

#65. My people have a legend of the Dayslayer. It says that Artemis chose one of our own to be her personal guard. More beloved than any of her people, the Dayslayer has no known vulnerability. Once he's unleashed, his goal is destroy Dark-Hunters. (Spawn) So you're telling me he's the Bogeyman? (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#66. As we face our vulnerability and weakness, there are things you and I should pray for regularly. We should pray for purity of desire, wisdom to recognize the enemy's tricks, and strength to fight the battles we can't avoid.

Paul David Tripp

#67. 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.

Brene Brown

#68. The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability ... When the leader demonstrates vulnerability and sensibility and brings people together, the team wins.

Howard Schultz

#69. [His] leaving had stabbed her heart. This organ was not inclined to forgive her for vulnerability.

Thomm Quackenbush

#70. What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.

Winnie Byanyima

#71. It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people ... Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that's what it is.

Elizabeth Reaser

#72. we dismiss vulnerability as weakness only when we realize that we've confused feeling with failing and emotions with liabilities.

Brene Brown

#73. Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that is all is internally generated. We wander around cloaked in an illusion of vulnerability, mis-armed with an arrogance of free will and rationality.

Philip Zimbardo

#74. 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.

Brene Brown

#75. All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece.

A.D. Posey

#76. We spend so much time defending our choice to do this that it becomes hard to show any vulnerability at all. There's only so many times you can handle someone asking about your fall back for when things don't work before you start thinking that maybe the fall back should just be your plan.

Cora Carmack

#77. The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.

Rachel Cusk

#78. Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment

Millen Livis

#79. In the long run everything with the most minute vulnerability breaks, given the ruthlessness of time.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#80. There's nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There's nothing stronger than vulnerability. There's no better time than now.

Vironika Tugaleva

#81. ...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.

Terrence Real

#82. Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

Ruth Wilson

#83. The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story.

Janet Fitch

#84. There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

Simon Sinek

#85. There is a vulnerability that any woman has in a situation where you're surrounded by men in an enclosed space. You learn through time different defense mechanisms, and it could be for protection, for emotional, physical, everything.

Katee Sackhoff

#86. Successful adult relationships, whether between lovers or
friends, require a significant degree of vulnerability, trust,
and openness -

Susan Forward

#87. Living in an inner state of vulnerability is a powerful practice that opens our hearts, causing us to live in a state of gratitude for our life and life itself.

Michael Beckwith

#88. The girl in the video is a reminder about how fragile our hold on sanity and health is and how much we are at the utter whim of our Brutus bodies, which will inevitably, on day, turn on us for good. I am a prisoner, as we all are. And with that realization comes an aching sense of vulnerability.

Susannah Cahalan

#89. If I were ever to grace the pages of 'Vogue,' I would want my image retouched because the audience is so vast. There is great vulnerability in being exposed to that many judging eyes. I feel no small amount of guilt over this willingness to surrender my ideals.

Roxane Gay

#90. Her soft vulnerability coupled with her cutting insight and strength were a lethal combination - one

K.F. Breene

#91. Vulnerability always comes with risks, but its rewards are deep.

Aisha Mirza

#92. Good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

James Tiptree Jr.

#93. What's beautiful about the actual acting class environment is that you can use it to push through everything: push your voice, push your inhibitions, push your fears, push your confidence, push your vulnerability, push your silences.

Dawn Olivieri

#94. Not a mindless relinquishing of physical dignity in exchange for favors or pleasure, but an intentional vulnerability far more dangerous and lasting.

Grace Burrowes

#95. She had been so vulnerable, and Norah wanted only to protect her. But that vulnerability was tied to a massive mistake, a perception of herself too damaged to love. If Norah got anything from this book, it's that we're all damaged. The tragedy is letting it define you.

Ellen Meister

#96. We had given in to our vulnerability and cast down any pretenses that we were too strong to be weak.

Kellie Thacker

#97. It was Chelsea who captures our plummet before it reaches the deepest parts of our vulnerability.

Danielle Rohr

#98. I hope people learn the power of vulnerability through my songs. I think vulnerability can save the world. Empathy helps people connect with each other.

Mary Lambert

#99. I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.

Tori Amos

#100. Heroics is often about putting our life on the line. Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today's world, that's pretty extraordinary.

Brene Brown