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One of the worst things you can die with is potential.

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
Psychologist
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Potential
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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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There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
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The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.
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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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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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That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the who you are as much as the what of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.
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When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.
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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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Christianity is not about morality. It's about reality.
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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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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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Dating is primarily a numbers game.... People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That's just the way it is.
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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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Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
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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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To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.
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A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.
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In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.
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If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
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We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
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