Vulnerability Trust Quotes

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

Susan Forward

#2. We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#3. We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Frank Crane

#4. Shame breeds fear. It crushes our tolerance for vulnerability, thereby killing engagement, innovation, creativity, productivity, and trust.

Brene Brown

#5. All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

Robert C. Solomon

#6. I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#7. I am a great believer in not pushing each other's "buttons" just because we know where they are! That's part of trusting each other. We need to trust that our vulnerabilities and challenges are safe with the person we love.

Cathy Burnham Martin

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

Patrick Lencioni

#9. If she wanted this man to trust her, to open up to her, she would have to strip every last piece of herself away, like he had been stripped. That's the only way he would let her in. The challenge seemed insurmountable, maybe because he seemed insurmountable.

Dianna Hardy

#10. God wanted Abram to be his friend, and friends trust each other, and you can't learn to trust someone without a little risk and uncertainty and vulnerability.

John Ortberg

#11. Trust is tough since it involves that quixotic mix of integrity, vulnerability, and intimacy. But trust anyway.

Jeffrey Fry

#12. What was it about relationships that made you feel so vulnerable? Oh, right. A relationship. In any relationship, you put yourself out there. You exposed all of your sensitive nerve endings and your heart and you just had to hope that you trusted the right person.

Courtney Cole

#13. Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

Joseph J. Ellis

#14. Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.

Brene Brown

#15. Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time.

Brene Brown

#16. Trust is an intangible thing, a token of faith that you extend to another. And the irony of it is that it will never solidify into anything true or strong unless you allow yourself the vulnerability of outstretching your hand, with the hope that the other will reciprocate the gesture.

Sofia Malamas

#17. Vulnerability is about sharing our feelings and our experiences with people who have earned the right to hear them. Being vulnerable and open is mutual and an integral part of the trust-building process.

Brene Brown

#18. The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.

Brene Brown

#19. The tendency to trust easily anyone gives way to a certain vulnerability.

Angelica Hopes

#20. When people fight about something, the subject of the argument is rarely the real issue. The real issue is about vulnerability, connectedness, safety, trust or love - which are all emotional states.

Shawn Kent Hayashi

#21. When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.

Gina Greenlee