Brene Brown Quotes

I'm not ashamed of myself.

It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.

Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss.

I find that a lot of women respond to my work in that it doesn't make them feel bad about themselves.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.

Own your choices. Don't feel ashamed about what you're doing, trust yourself that you're a good parent, don't let anybody else shame you, and, certainly, don't shame yourself.

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

Shame is hard to confront. Even if you know it's baseless, it's still hard to come face-to-face with.

I am a firm believer that the only person who can make you feel inferior is yourself.

Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.

A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.

You can forgive yourself a great deal.

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.

For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.