Henry Cloud Quotes About Growth

Quotes about: Growth

• Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.

  Henry Cloud

  Moving, People, Leaving

  Henry Cloud (2011). “Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward”, p.7, Harper Collins

• To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.

  Henry Cloud

  Giving Up, Growth, Return

  Twitter post from Jan 17, 2014

• There is a big difference between hurt and harm. We all hurt sometimes in facing hard truths, but it makes us grow. It can be the source of huge growth. That is not harmful. Harm is when you damage someone. Facing reality is usually not a damaging experience, even though it can hurt.

  Henry Cloud

  Hurt, Reality, Differences

  Henry Cloud (2011). “Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward”, p.21, Harper Collins

• 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.

  Henry Cloud

  People, Leader, Growth

  "The Composition of Integrity - Henry Cloud Interview". Interview with Paul Braoudakis, willowcreek.org.uk. November 10, 2010.

• Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.

  Henry Cloud

  Pain, Growth, Purpose

  Twitter post from Feb 13, 2014

• Dating is not only a wonderful time of life, but also a context for enormous spiritual and personal growth. You learn so much about yourself, others, God, love, spirituality, and life through dating. Done well, it can be fulfilling in and of itself. Done well, it can be one of the most fun and rewarding aspects of your life. Done well, it can lead to a good marriage.

  Henry Cloud

  Spiritual, Fun, Dating

  Henry Cloud (2005). “How to Get a Date Worth Keeping: Be Dating in Six Months Or Your Money Back”, p.30, Zondervan

• 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.

  Henry Cloud

  Growth, Shy, Development

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