Famous Bren Brown Quotes

  • If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive. – Bren Brown

    If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.– Bren Brown

  • When you shut down vulnerability, you shut down opportunity – Bren Brown

    When you shut down vulnerability, you shut down opportunity– Bren Brown

  • I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults. – Bren Brown

    I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.– Bren Brown

  • Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors. – Bren Brown

    Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.– 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

    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

  • There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that’s what we signed up for when we decided to become parents. – 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

  • What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude. – Bren Brown

    What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.– Bren Brown

  • You’ll also wonder how you can feel so brave and so afraid at the same time. – Bren Brown

    You’ll also wonder how you can feel so brave and so afraid at the same time.– Bren Brown

  • Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love. – Bren Brown

    Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.– 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

    I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.– Bren Brown