Strength In Vulnerability Quotes

#1. And that reminds me of another memorable thing Linda once said to me: There's so much strength in vulnerability. It's the ultimate gift you can give yourself because you allow yourself to open up; to invite someone in.

Kat Von D.

#2. 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

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

K.F. Breene

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

Terrence Real

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

Vironika Tugaleva

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

Millen Livis

#7. Vulnerability does not take away your strength

Derek Hough

#8. In front of an audience of Protestant clergy, the Catholic JFK was drawing strength from his vulnerability.

David Pietrusza

#9. I needed somebody without any preconceived ideas. But I also needed somebody with a mind of her own." The contradictory qualities we seek in that elusive perfect lover. Strength and vulnerability, in equal measures.

Jeffery Deaver

#10. 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

#11. You matter. You're not broken. You're stronger than you think.

Vironika Tugaleva

#12. It takes strength to show vulnerability.

Miranda Lambert

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. If you want the naked beauty of my vulnerability, you have to have the strength to share the burden of, the private pain, that makes me feel so tender and fragile. For i am as strong, as i am, weak. If you want me to come home to you, be the safe harbor, in which, i can seek refuge.

Jaeda DeWalt

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. And that look, that vulnerability? It was even more irresistible than her strength.

Alessandra Torre

#19. When one had once suffered a great hurt, there was always a weakness afterward, a vulnerability where there had been wholeness and strength before - and innocence.

Mary Balogh

#20. Vulnerability is strength, surrender is victory.

Sean O'Donoghue Morgan

#21. How many of us have had our hearts broken for whatever reason yet find the courage to continue to reach out for love. Emotional vulnerability is true strength to me.

Michelle J. Howard

#22. Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths.

Emilia Fox

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

Criss Jami

#24. People can be at their most vulnerable, but still tenacious at the same time.

Toni Bernhard

#25. THEATRE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE IN WAYS THAT NO OTHER ART FORM CAN. THEATRE REFLECTS BOTH THE EXTRAORDINARY DIVERSITY OF CULTURES AND OUR SHARED HUMAN CONDITION, IN ALL ITS VULNERABILITY AND STRENGTH.

Irina Bokova

#26. He opened his heart to me. He wasn't afraid to show me his weakness. It was a remarkable thing, in that time, for a man to do that. That's the key thing about a strong marriage. It gives you a safe place to be yourself, entirely, even the weak parts.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

#27. The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a presumed 'window of vulnerability,' which we now know not to exist.

John F. Kerry

#28. It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

Meghan O'Rourke

#29. I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

Brenda Shaughnessy

#30. You do not need any more strength. You only need to realize how strong you already are.

Vironika Tugaleva

#31. The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine - vulnerability and strength - is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.

RuPaul

#32. Vulnerability has a strength of its own.

William Zinsser

#33. Femininity and sweetness are part of women's strength...Quiet strength need not be mistaken for useless vulnerability.

Rozsika Parker

#34. He'd fallen for her - for her sometimes amusing, sometimes confounding combination of strength, brains, drive, vulnerability, and mile-wide stubborn streak. He'd fallen for the whole complicated package, screwed-up father included.

Samanthe Beck

#35. A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.

Simon Sinek

#36. Sometimes, breaking down is the bravest thing you can do.

Vironika Tugaleva

#37. An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way.

Harriet Lerner

#38. Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#39. True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day.

Mandy Hale

#40. One of the greatest lies ever told is that there's no power in vulnerability.

Dianna Hardy

#41. It took vulnerability to forge strength, the way true courage required fear.

Martina Boone

#42. Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

Shemar Moore

#43. Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener.

Gina Barreca

#44. Strength can only get you so far; vulnerability takes you the rest of the way.

C. Nicole Mason

#45. A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity, and maybe our bond of love becomes strong or weak.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#46. Her nakedness wasn't vulnerability. It was her strength.

Pepper Winters

#47. I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Elisabeth Shue

#48. The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which she has acknowledged was a terrible mistake, has lent an aura of strength in a funny way.

Joe Conason

#49. We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.

Henri Nouwen

#50. And that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

Audre Lorde

#51. 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

#52. there is more strength
in admitting vulnerability
than in faking invincibility

Rick Julian