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“Again, the difference between empathy and sympathy: feeling with and feeling for. The empathic response: I get it, I feel with you, and I’ve been there. The sympathetic response: I feel sorry for you.” (Dare to Lead Quotes)
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“At the end of the day, at the end of the week, at the end of my life, I want to say I contributed more than I criticized. It’s that simple.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“Daring leaders work to make sure people can be themselves and feel a sense of belonging.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“Diminishing trust caused by a lack of connection and empathy.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“Empathy is connecting to the feeling under the experience, not the experience itself.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“Feeding people half-truths or bullshit to make them feel better (which is almost always about making ourselves feel more comfortable) is unkind”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“How do I know if I can trust someone enough to be vulnerable? Can I build trust without ever risking vulnerability?”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“I always bring my core values to feedback conversations. I specifically bring courage, which means that I don’t choose comfort over being respectful and honest—choosing politeness over respect is not respectful.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“I define a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“I’m brave enough to listen. I don’t have to take it all in or add it to my load, but I’m brave enough to listen.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“If we believe empathy is finite, like pizza, and practicing empathy with someone leaves fewer slices for others, then perhaps comparing levels of suffering would be necessary. Luckily, however, empathy is infinite and renewable. The more you give, the more we all have.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“If we want people to fully show up, to bring their whole selves including their unarmored, whole hearts—so that we can innovate, solve problems, and serve people—we have to be vigilant about creating a culture in which people feel safe, seen, heard, and respected.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“If you have more than three priorities, you have no priorities”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“In either case, if you come across an explanation of vulnerability that doesn’t include setting boundaries or being clear on intentions, proceed with caution. Vulnerability for vulnerability’s sake is not effective, useful, or smart.” (Dare to Lead Quotes)
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“In the end, the cure for numbing is developing tools and practices that allow you to lean into discomfort and renew your spirit.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again…who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“It turns out that trust is in fact earned in the smallest of moments. It is earned not through heroic deeds, or even highly visible actions, but through paying attention, listening, and gestures of genuine care and connection.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“Knowledge is only rumor until it lives in the bones”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“Only when diverse perspectives are included, respected, and valued can we start to get a full picture of the world.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“Our ability to be daring leaders will never be greater than our capacity for vulnerability”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“People are opting out of vital conversations about diversity and inclusivity because they fear looking wrong, saying something wrong, or being wrong. Choosing our own comfort over hard conversations is the epitome of privilege, and it corrodes trust and moves us away from meaningful and lasting change.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“Power within is defined by an ability to recognize differences and respect others, grounded in a strong foundation of self-worth and self-knowledge. When we operate from a place of power within, we feel comfortable challenging assumptions and long-held beliefs, pushing against the status quo, and asking if there aren’t other ways to achieve the highest common good.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“Rather than spending a reasonable amount of time proactively acknowledging and addressing the fears and feelings that show up during change and upheaval, we spend an unreasonable amount of time managing problematic behaviors.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“Show up for people in pain and don’t look away.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“Silence is not brave leadership, and silence is not a component of brave cultures.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“Talk to yourself the way you’d talk to someone you love. Most of us shame, belittle, and criticize ourselves in ways we’d never think of doing to others.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“The courage to be vulnerable is not about winning or losing, it’s about the courage to show up when you can’t predict or control the outcome.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“The less we talk about shame, the more control it has over our lives.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“The only thing I know for sure after all of this research is that if you’re going to dare greatly, you’re going to get your ass kicked at some point. If you choose courage, you will absolutely know failure, disappointment, setback, even heartbreak. That’s why we call it courage. That’s why it’s so rare.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“There is an incredibly important, uncomfortable, and brave discussion that every single leader and every organization in the world should be having about privilege.” (Dare to Lead Quotes)
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“Trust is the stacking and layering of small moments and reciprocal vulnerability over time. Trust and vulnerability grow together, and to betray one is to destroy both.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“We also have to invest time attending to our own fears, feelings, and history or we’ll find ourselves managing our own unproductive behaviors. As daring leaders, we have to stay curious about our own blind spots and how to pull those issues into view, and we need to commit to helping the people we serve find their blind spots in a way that’s safe and supportive.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“We desperately need more leaders who are committed to courageous, wholehearted leadership and who are self-aware enough to lead from their hearts, rather than unevolved leaders who lead from hurt and fear.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“We fail the minute we let someone else define success for us.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“We have to be able to take feedback—regardless of how it’s delivered—and apply it productively. We have to do this for a simple reason: Mastery requires feedback. I don’t care what we’re trying to master—and whether we’re trying to develop greatness or proficiency—it always requires feedback.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
“We judge in areas where we’re most susceptible to shame, and we judge people who are doing worse than we are in those areas.”
Brené Brown
Dare to Lead
