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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.

Henry Cloud

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
Psychologist
Vicksburg
Mississippi
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When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.
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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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Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.
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One of the worst things you can die with is potential.
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Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.
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Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
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It is true that you get what you tolerate.
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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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Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break the rule. The parent then corrects and disciplines. The child breaks the rule again, and the parent manages the consequences and empathy that then turn the rule into reality and internal structure for the child.
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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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The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present.
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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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Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.
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Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.
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If you want to become healthy, you have to surround yourself with a group of people that are getting healthy and you have to be connected to a community that is doing what you want to do.
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Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.
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You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.
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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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