Who a person is will ultimately determine if their brains, talents, competencies, energy, effort, deal-making abilities, and opportunities will succeed.
HENRY CLOUDTo get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.
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We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.
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When truth presents itself, the wise person see the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth.
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When leaders lead in ways that people’s brains can follow, good results follow as well.
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The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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Christianity is not about morality. It’s about reality.
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Whatever’s happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don’t treat it like it’s the whole story. Keep writing the story.
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For someone’s character to grow, it has to be free from internal attack. Falling down never stopped children from developing. But getting yelled at, criticized, and put down can stop them for life.
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It is true that you get what you tolerate.
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Faith goes beyond reason. It goes beyond what you can see. But it is as real as anything you can touch or feel.
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The physicality of a real relationship – one that encompasses mind, body and soul – ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.
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Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
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People tend to look at dating sort of like a safari – like they’re trying to land the trophy.
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To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.
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Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.
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Encourage literally came from “in courage.” The courage is put “into” you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.
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There’s no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
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He is the Truth, and He wants us to deal in truth with ourselves and our loved ones. We want the truth about you and your family to flood into and overrun the secrets that keep you in bondage to dysfunctional behavior and relationships.
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Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.
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To grow, we need things that we do not have and cannot provide, and we need to have a source of those things who looks favorably upon us and who does things for us for our own good.
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We need rest not just so we feel better. We need rest for actual creation of what we’re going to need the next day.
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Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.
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Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.
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A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word ‘no.’ Love respects ‘no,’ control does not.
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Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
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The business of church is ultimately people. You’re trying to heal people, grow people, teach people, and mend people. And when leaders spend all of their time helping and growing other people, they ignore their own growth.
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