“Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today’s world, that’s pretty extraordinary.”
More from Brené Brown on Courage
“I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.”
“The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.”
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”
“Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.”
“Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.”
Others on Courage
Martin Luther King
11 quotes“If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
Sir Winston Churchill
9 quotes“So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me...”
Erica Jong
8 quotes“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
Veronica Roth
7 quotes“Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.”
Plautus
7 quotes“Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage compri...”
Audre Lorde
6 quotes“When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
6 quotes“Courage is the footstool of the Virtues upon which they stand.”
Seneca
6 quotes“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
Napoleon
6 quotes“The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.”
Cervantes
6 quotes“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.”
Henrik Ibsen
5 quotes“And what if I did run my ship aground oh still it was splendid to sail it!”
Plutarch
5 quotes“It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.”