Brene Brown Quotes

Never Let Anyone Come to You Without Coming Away Better and Happier

The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

As soon as you seek to inspire others, it inspires the best in you.

Be a bringer of the Light. For your light can do more than illuminate your own path, you can be the light which truly lights the world.

Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.

I'm not a big guy that believes that you gain energy from demonizing other people. I think you gain energy from giving people hope.

If you inspire one person each day, you’re day hasn't been a waste. It’s been a blessing.

Leave everyone you meet better than you found them. Become an encourager of potential versus a destroyer of confidence.

You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down. Abraham Lincoln said it...

I'm inspired to inspire others.

I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.

If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.

I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world.

I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

Every society needs people who can encourage and stimulate and cheer. They are the ones who make the world run. You can be one of them!

I believe that love gives you the freedom and power to share your best self and to inspire others.

It's always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that's what it's all about, man.

That always catches you by surprise, you know, the amount of inspiration, should you choose to, that you can give to people.

We can all remember a time when someone encouraged us and made a difference in our lives. It may be just a moment, but this encouragement could last a lifetime.

Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.