My Favorite Top 41 Quotes from Daring Greatly

She has spent her career studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and is the author of five #1 New York Times best sellers: The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness, and her latest book, Dare to Lead, which is the culmination of a seven-year study on courage and leadership.īrown’s TED talk – The Power of Vulnerability – is one of the top five most viewed TED talks in the world with over 35 million views. BRENÉ BROWNĬasandra Brené Brown PhD LMSW (born November 18, 1965) is a research professor at the University of Houston. 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, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but who does actually strive to do the deeds who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions who spends himself in a worthy cause 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.”Īccording to Brené Brown, Roosevelt’s words perfectly summarize her research into why people find being vulnerable such a hard thing to do. “ 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 title and the message of the book by Brené Brown Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, are inspired by a speech given by Teddy Roosevelt in 1910, where Roosevelt said:

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