Eva Amurri Quotes

True power is given to the vulnerable.

Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.

The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness.

I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

Cancer has given me a dose of humility. I'm much more empathetic. It's a club I would rather not have joined, but it is a club.

When you overcome a profound loss, or there's some catalyst in your life that shifts everything, if you're able to take it in stride and heal, it can make for much more three-dimensional and empathetic people.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

I want people to learn from me, see I'm human, and understand that I make mistakes just like they do, but it doesn't have to consume you. You've got to walk through the raindrops, and that's totally what I am trying to do.