What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.
– Bren Brown
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- Life is short let go of ego, entitlement, resentment, hate, doubt. Hold on to positivity, gratitude, optimism, hope, love. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships. – Steve Maraboli
- Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. – Bren Brown
- We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can’t use shame to change ourselves or others. – Bren Brown
- Maybe stories are just data with a soul. – Bren Brown
- Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world. – Bren Brown
- When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own. – Bren Brown
- Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it’s never taking your car out of the garage. It’s safe in there, but you’ll never go anywhere. – Bren Brown
- Compassionate people are boundaried people. – Bren Brown
- Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. – Bren Brown
- What we know matters but who we are matters more. – Bren Brown
- Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today’s world, that’s pretty extraordinary. – Bren Brown
- When shame becomes a management style, engagement dies. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation . – Bren Brown
- Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others. – Bren Brown
- You can’t claim to care about the welfare of children if you’re shaming other parents for the choices they’re making. – Bren Brown
- It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous. – Bren Brown
- Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in. – Bren Brown
- Numb the dark and you numb the light. – Bren Brown
- Compassion is not a virtue — it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have — it’s something we choose to practice. – Bren Brown
- I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. – Bren Brown
- Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love. – Bren Brown
- You’ll also wonder how you can feel so brave and so afraid at the same time. – Bren Brown
- There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that’s what we signed up for when we decided to become parents. – Bren Brown
- Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting. – Bren Brown
- Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors. – Bren Brown
- I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults. – Bren Brown
- When you shut down vulnerability, you shut down opportunity – Bren Brown
- If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive. – Bren Brown
- When you find yourself internally, you find what nourishes you from within. You lose that entitlement and anger when YOU deliver. – Tony Curl
- Too many people are endowed with a feeling of entitlement, but born without God-given empathy. – C JoyBell C
- Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one’s persona. – TF Hodge
- The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem. – George F Will
- The act of sex is healthy, normal, God-given. It’s the emotions and entitlement that everyone attaches to it that is harmful. – Alessandra Torre
- Abuse grows from attitudes and values, not feelings. The roots are ownership, the trunk is entitlement, and the branches are control. – Lundy Bancroft
- Never start your gratitude moment with an unthankful heart or out of necessity. Gratitude must be sincere. – Mensah Oteh
- If you are expressing gratitude then you are in the present moment. If you are in the present moment then you are expressing gratitude. – Matthew Donnelly
- When we begin to view our experiences through the lens of gratitude, our heart, mind and spirit naturally expand. – David Brown Jr
- Pity is not forgiveness, nor is gratitude absolution. – Pierce Brown
- Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed. – Stephen Richards