Top 100 To Be Vulnerable Quotes
#1. I wanted to badly to be vulnerable over a burger, beer, and bags of free books we find on some stranger's porch. You wanted badly to be touched some thousand miles away and never found the time to write me back.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#2. I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.
Katy Perry
#4. I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.
Malin Akerman
#5. Nothing is free. If you stay safe, the price is never knowing love. Because to receive love, you have to give love. And to give love is to be vulnerable. You can build walls and be lonely or you can tear them down and hand over your heart." "What
Susan Mallery
#6. I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans ... to be vulnerable with them ... that's my job as an artist.
Tyler Farr
#7. Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.
Gloria Steinem
#8. Dare to be vulnerable, walk outside without your armor on and say YES to your heart.
Alaric Hutchinson
#9. Many of us overvalue autonomy, the strength to stand alone, the capacity to act independently. Far too few of us pay attention to the virtues of dependence and interdependence, and especially to the capacity to be vulnerable.
William Sloane Coffin
#10. You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.
Bob Dylan
#11. It was one thing to be vulnerable when alone, something else entirely to trust another to hold my heart safe.
Jeff Brown
#12. As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.
Gayle Forman
#13. 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
#14. We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other
John Cassavetes
#15. Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.
Mary E. DeMuth
#16. Countries that perceive themselves to be vulnerable can be expected to try to redress that vulnerability - and in some cases, they will pursue clandestine weapons programs.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#17. What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in my mind, that bit of homophobia, and try for a second to be vulnerable and sensitive. It was f**kin' hard, man. I succeeded only for milliseconds.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#18. To be vulnerable, and it's only in being vulnerable that we can be fully loved.
Emily T. Wierenga
#19. Many think vulnerability is weakness, but it is not. Those who refuse to be vulnerable lose the ability to understand others who are, and their fear and discomfort quickly turn into judgment and criticism.
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#20. We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.
Glenn Close
#22. Love is to give, commit, and trust completely; the courage to be vulnerable without the omniscience of another's virtue.
Ken Poirot
#23. It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
Rachel Platten
#24. I realized then that I'd never want to be vulnerable with any other man but you. Someone that understands me. Respects me. Loves me - so wildly. You were the only one. You are the only one.
Krista Ritchie
#25. When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.
Jack Canfield
#26. 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
#27. When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability ... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle
#28. It's easy for me to be vulnerable and craft songs when I'm being a hermit in my woods loft, secluded. When I get attention for it, whether it's on stage or in life - I have sort of a love-hate relationship with all of it. That makes me feel really stark naked.
Rachael Yamagata
#29. At its core, naked service boils down to the ability of a service provider to be vulnerable - to embrace uncommon levels of humility, selflessness, and transparency for the good of a client.
Patrick Lencioni
#30. To love at all is to be vulnerable.
C.S. Lewis
#31. To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.
Lana Parrilla
#32. To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.
Don Cupitt
#33. Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
Alfred De Musset
#34. We're sick of being afraid and we're tired of hustling for our self-worth. We want to be brave, and deep inside we know that being brave requires us to be vulnerable.
Brene Brown
#36. When I was younger, I was reticent to be vulnerable on camera and everything I was doing was just a really finely honed defense mechanism from when I was a kid, and I was now using this to make a living on camera.
Ryan Reynolds
#37. Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.
Theodore Roethke
#38. I'd like to hope you end up a miserable, lonely woman. But actually, I hope you have children one day, Ellie Haworth. Then you'll know how it feels to be vulnerable. And to have to fight, to be constantly vigilant, just to make sure your children get to grow up with a father.
Jojo Moyes
#39. To be vulnerable to negative emotion is to lack a personal commitment to kingdom principles
Sunday Adelaja
#40. I've realized the most effective writing and living are done when we are willing to be vulnerable. I think we spend most of our lives trying to cover up our insecurities.
Katie Kiesler
#41. When you like someone, you have to allow yourself to be vulnerable enough to let them in. Love is messy.
Jocelyn Davies
#42. To be essential to another human being, to be vulnerable, to have another assign themselves generously and selflessly is the ultimate expression of true love, and they understood how lucky they were.
Sharon Lathan
#43. It's good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn't lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.
Florence Welch
#44. It's hard to be vulnerable in front of the whole world because everyone's a critic.
Pattie Mallette
#45. Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.
Michael Bolton
#46. She had given her heart permission to be vulnerable, risking the potential of it being broken into a million pieces.
Ella Frank
#48. The first rule of improv is 'Never say no.' Use it when co-writing. To co-write, you need to be willing to be vulnerable with each other. You need to be stupid with each other.
Chuck Cannon
#49. A sense of worthiness inspires us to be vulnerable, share openly, and persevere. Shame keeps us small, resentful, and afraid.
Brene Brown
#50. It's tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.
Rihanna
#51. There is so much crap in the world, both in show and other businesses, that I try to be vulnerable myself, in the hopes that there is some truth I can get to, that makes people feel less alone in the world.
Charlie Kaufman
#52. When you get the call from Quentin Tarantino, it's the call of a lifetime. You don't allow yourself to be vulnerable enough or to be fool enough to expect that phone call to happen, in reality.
Walton Goggins
#53. I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that's the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic.
Mary Frann
#54. To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive.
Alexis De Veaux
#55. You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.
Cecelia Ahern
#56. Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.
Helen Clark MacInnes
#57. It's very hard to have ideas. It's very hard to put yourself out there, it's very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.
Amy Poehler
#58. Of all the things trauma takes away from us, the worst is our willingness, or even our ability, to be vulnerable. There's a reclaiming that has to happen.
Brene Brown
#59. For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice ... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.
Sophia Loren
#60. I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#61. When we stop caring about what people think, we lose our capacity for connection. When we become defined by what people think, we lose our willingness to be vulnerable.
Brene Brown
#62. 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
#64. Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.
Iyanla Vanzant
#65. For me there's a need for balance - fulfilling the sensitive side, letting my guard down, holding back the warrior in me. And I have to be vulnerable which is very hard for me to do.
Evangeline Lilly
#66. Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty.
Brene Brown
#67. For me, being able to be vulnerable is difficult, but it's just something that I feel comfortable doing. I need to fully understand why, the thought-process behind the character and I have to believe it. That comes from a lot of preparation.
Logan Lerman
#68. 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
#69. It's our willingness to be vulnerable that will heal us in the end.
Bryonie Wise
#70. It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.
Tucker Max
#71. Each person has a self-image that, to some degree, does not match reality. A significant difference between self-image and reality can be harmful. The more self-aware you are, the less likely you are to be vulnerable to your illusions. The more aware you are, the more you can do with your life.
Robert H. Bolton
#72. My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.
Jurnee Smollett
#73. We each joked to close friends that the secret to saving a relationship is for one person to become terminally ill. Conversely, we knew that one trick to managing a terminal illness is to be deeply in love - to be vulnerable, kind, generous, grateful.
Paul Kalanithi
#74. The most memorable moments in life start with the willingness to be vulnerable.
Rebecca Donovan
#75. People say that one of the most important things about being an actor is to have thick skin, but I don't think that's it. Because you can't just walk around being tough, you have to be able to be vulnerable to do this. So really, it's about not being defensive.
Jess Weixler
#76. All humans are part male and part female. The other side must be explored to gain complete understanding ofourselves and the world we live in. Forme, the idea of having a feminine perspective is a willingness to be vulnerable.
Billy Corgan
#77. Because I've been so bad at looking after myself, how would I ever look after a kid? But the old cliche applied: they handed her to me, and my world turned upside down - and I realised I was now going to be vulnerable in more ways than I expected.
Ken Bruen
#78. To listen is to be vulnerable. You allow something outside your body to come inside. To be open and impressionable, to hear everything, is dangerous. You can be damaged all too easily.
W.A. Mathieu
#79. The only way to fall in love is to allow yourself to be vulnerable.
The only way to dare to dream and making incredible things happen is to be vulnerable.
Bert McCracken
#80. If you cannot forgive because of hurt inflicted by others, you will be unwilling to be vulnerable for fear of being hurt again. Because people are sinners, you cannot love and you cannot minister without getting hurt.
Walter A. Henrichsen
#81. Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.
Diane Lane
#82. I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.
Jane Lynch
#83. When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.
David D. Burns
#84. It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and I can't say that I blame him, to live his life rather than create it.
Marita Golden
#85. 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
#86. I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#87. To feel is to be vulnerable. To believe vulnerability is weakness is to believe that feeling is weakness.
Brene Brown
#88. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked ... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.
Liv Ullmann
#89. It's scary but as an actress it is my job to be vulnerable, so I try to just embrace it and focus on the things I can control.
Sadie Calvano
#90. There is a surprising amount of overlap between the storytelling and burlesque communities, maybe because they both, in a way, involve getting naked. People who choose to be vulnerable are rare. People who manage to do it well are even more so.
Mara Wilson
#91. It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
John Eldredge
#92. Greatest risk of all: to be vulnerable, to allow others to see us as we really are
Walter Inglis Anderson
#93. The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.
George Lopez
#95. But, Venus, isn't that just part of love?" Pea asked gently. "You have to be vulnerable to truly be loved.
P.C. Cast
#96. The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power
Terry Tempest Williams
#97. Allowing yourself to be vulnerable makes you weak but also opens you to the nuances of beauty ...
John Geddes
#98. Your career will include thousands of opportunities to transform yourself. Many will disrupt all that you have built. Each is an opportunity to choose to be vulnerable, to let go, to be reborn.
Bill Jensen
#99. Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.
Victoria Pratt
#100. 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
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