Henry Cloud Quotes

People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect. That's just not the way people are.

If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.

There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior.

I acknowledge that we are all human and are on a journey. We are not born perfect, mistakes are inevitable.

I think my wife puts up with me 'cause I try. I think that's all any guy can do is just try. That's right! 'Cause we ain't never gunna get it. 'Cause as soon as we get close you ladies change it. It's like this memo goes out, 'they're getting close, change it, change it!'

Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

So what if you're not perfect? nobody else is either.

I'm human here, people. I'm not the Dalai Lama. But I'm trying.

When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.

No one was perfect. But we all did the best we could. I guessed you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn't, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren't.

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.

A role model is an imperfect person, not a perfect person, because that's who we are as real people.

I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I'm not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.

There is no such thing as a perfect flawless attitude.

...Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you.

Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.

Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.

It's okay that we're not perfect. It's okay that we all have problems. It's okay to cry, to show emotions.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.

Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect. We each have failings that aren't terribly difficult to detect especially if that is the aim.