Henry Cloud Quotes

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• Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
• Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.
• Diligence is not easy, but we can't reach our goals without it.
• 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…
• A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not.
• The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love
• In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.
• The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present.
• To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.
• The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love…
• Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
• Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.
• When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.
• 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…
• When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.
• There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.
• The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
• 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.
• We have our own thoughts, and if we want others to know them, we must tell them.
• Spouses in healthy relationships cherish each other's space and are champions of each other's causes.

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