Brene Brown Quotes

When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated.

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

I eliminated stress by eliminating people that I don't enjoy working with.

No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.

Im not the type of person to point fingers at anybody, and I dont want anybody saying anything to me. There are situations where balls are bounced to your feet you dont say anything.

People take things too personally - I don't. If someone says something about me, I let it go. But unfortunately, everyone isn't like that. So I'm trying to be more diplomatic - but people always want a headline from me!

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

The best way to create emotional or spiritual distance between me and another person is for them to come up to me and go, 'yaassssss.'

I'd like to be more assertive when it comes to confrontation. I'm fine on the pitch, but off the pitch, I'm a bit of a softy.

I've learnt that over the years, sometimes I was caring so much about how other people felt, I wasn't standing up for myself and I wasn't caring about how I felt even when people were straight up bullying me online.

I had people come up from NXT and say to me, 'one thing we know is that we hear you're a bully,' I say that I am because I know that I am going to be bullied back at some point so I might as well start it.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.

I like to be nice to people, but sometimes people aren't nice to me.

I don't care about people who don't care about me. If people are negative or mean, then that's their issue. Screw them.

Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative.

Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.

You don't just walk out because you think someone has insulted you and your pride has been hurt.

My policy is I am always more than happy to say, "I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings." What I am not willing to do is take back what I said. Unless I am wrong.

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

Remember, no one can hurt your feelings without your permission

Don't say yes to everything. Learn how to say no, because people respect a no.

I've never really had a problem with people.

Taking on responsibilities that properly belong to someone else means behaving irresponsibly toward yourself. You need to know where you end and someone else begins. You need to understand boundaries. You need to know what is and is not up to you, what is and is not in your control, what is and is not your responsibility.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for approval than with your need for support. No matter what their response, you need to be firm and hold your ground. At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.