50 Vulnerability Quotes To Open Up More

Strength lies in vulnerability, not in invulnerability.
- Barbara De Angelis

Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experiences.
- Brene Brown

To love at all is to be vulnerable.
- C.S. Lewis

Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.
- Brené Brown

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.
- Brene Brown

Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage.
- Brené Brown

Vulnerability is the courage to be yourself in a world that constantly tries to shape you.
- Kamand Kojouri

There is no courage without vulnerability. Courage requires the willingness to lean into uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.
- Brené Brown

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.
- Brene Brown

The foundation of courage is vulnerability–the ability to navigate uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. It takes courage to open ourselves up to joy...joy is probably the most vulnerable emotion we experience. We’re afraid that if we allow ourselves to feel lit, we’ll get blindsided by disaster or disappointment. That’s why in moments of real joy, many of us dress—rehearse tragedy...I call it foreboding joy. The only way to combat foreboding joy is gratitude.
- Brené Brown

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.
- Brené Brown

Courage is born out of vulnerability.
- Brene Brown

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.
- Brené Brown

If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.
- Mitch Albom

I have a million career weaknesses, and although it's uncomfortable, I believe that authentically acknowledging and working through your vulnerability is more powerful than the delusion of perfection.
- Caroline Ghosn

True strength is found in vulnerability and authenticity.
- Unknown

True belonging doesn't require you to change who you are, it requires you to be who you are. And that's vulnerable.
- Brene Brown

I've learned to use things like softness and vulnerability as weapons against the things you feel ashamed of in yourself.
- Arca

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.
- Brene Brown

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.
- Simon Sinek

I think when I show my vulnerability, people relate with that because they know deep down inside that they have vulnerable moments, and they can really connect and identify with me on those things.
- Andy Mineo

Vulnerability is the key that unlocks the door to growth and fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
- Brené Brown

Embrace vulnerability as a way to embrace your own humanity.
- Unknown

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
- Criss Jami

Embracing vulnerability allows us to experience life fully.
- Unknown

Vulnerability is the catalyst for personal and spiritual growth.
- Eckhart Tolle

Strength is born in the moments when you dare to be vulnerable.
- Unknown

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.
- Brené Brown

Embracing vulnerability allows us to connect deeply with others.
- Deepak Chopra

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.
- Elisabeth Shue

Vulnerability is the birthplace of trust, empathy, and love.
- Simon Sinek

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.
- Brene Brown

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.
- Brene Brown

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
- C. S. Lewis

To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage in a life that doesn't come with guarantees these are risks that involve vulnerability and often pain. But, I'm learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude and grace.
- Brené Brown

Vulnerability is — the definition of it from the data — uncertainty, risk, emotional exposure.
- Brené Brown

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.
- Brene Brown

I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let's think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow— that's vulnerability. Love is uncertain. It's incredibly risky. And loving someone leaves us emotionally exposed. Yes, it's scary, and yes, we're open to being hurt, but can you imagine your life without loving or being loved?
- Brené Brown

The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.
- Brene Brown

All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people.
- Paloma Faith

There is a certain vulnerability to creating art and putting it out in the world for the first time, but again, there's a kind of thrill to that as well.
- Phillipa Soo

I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human.
- Ron Perlman

Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?
- FKA Twigs

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.
- Patrick Wilson

I know my ticket is vulnerability. Most people point to some emotional experience, some hardship, some high or low when they talk about my music... a time when they need to feel those feelings more.
- Kelela

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
- M. Scott Peck

Rather than constantly questioning and challenging our beliefs and being willing to think differently about the opportunities that are out there, we withdraw into what we've done before. And in a world that's rapidly changing, that's a formula for vulnerability.
- John Hagel III

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ringfence them, with something far stronger than empathy.
- Zadie Smith

As a color, red represents so many things power, sensuality, vulnerability, and strength.
- Ariana DeBose