Quotes About Bravery

Yes, we are totally exposed when we are vulnerable. Yes, we are in the torture chamber that we call uncertainty. And, yes, we're taking a huge emotional risk when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable. But there's no equation where taking risks, braving uncertainty, and opening ourselves up to emotional exposure equals weakness.

Shame tells you that you shouldn't have even tried. Shame tells you that you're not good enough and you should have known better.

We're wired for story. In a culture of scarcity and perfectionism, there's a surprisingly simple reason we want to own, integrate, and share our stories of struggle. We do this because we feel the most alive when we're connecting with others and being brave with our stories - it's in our biology.

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

The willingness to show up changes us. It makes us a little braver each time.

Do not think you can be brave with your life and your work and never disappoint anyone. It doesn't work that way.

Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experiences.

Courage is contagious. My friend Katherine Center says, "You have to be brave with your life so that others can be brave with theirs.

Choosing authenticity is not an easy choice. E. E. Cummings wrote, "To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody but yourself—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight—and never stop fighting." "Staying real" is one of the most courageous battles that we'll ever fight.

Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.

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.

The truth is that falling hurts. The dare is to keep being brave and feel your way back up.

Courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It's going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

The place of true belonging, it's the bravest and most sacred place you'll stand.

Serpentining is the perfect metaphor for how we spend enormous energy trying to dodge vulnerability when it would take far less effort to face it straight on.

Yes, if we care enough and dare enough, we will experience disappointment. But in those moments when disappointment is washing over us and we're desperately trying to get our heads and hearts around what is or is not going to be, the death of our expectations can be painful beyond measure.

To pretend that we can get to helping, generous, and brave without navigating through tough emotions like desperation, shame, and panic is a profoundly dangerous and misguided assumption.

Revolution might sound a little dramatic, but in this world, choosing authenticity and worthiness is an absolute act of resistance. Choosing to live and love with our whole hearts is an act of defiance. You're going to confuse, piss off, and terrify lots of people—including yourself. One

But there's no equation where taking risks, braving uncertainty, and opening ourselves up to emotional exposure equals weakness.

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.

I'm brave enough to listen. I don't have to take it all in or add it to my load, but I'm brave enough to listen.

We can spend our entire life betraying ourself and choosing fitting in over standing alone. But once we've stood up for ourself and our beliefs, the bar is higher. A wild heart fights fitting in and grieves betrayal.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.