Henry Cloud Quotes

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.

In order to grow emotionally and mentally, sometimes you have to grow physically as well. I'm just trying to grow, man, and always I just want to be the best and most confident me I can be.

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Sometimes it used to hurt so bad when people used to say stuff about me. It still does. But I'm at a level now that I'm like, 'I ain't surprised that they said this or that about me.'

'Faking It' was hard for me to let go of because I knew how many kids it helped.

I've learned that I'm a lot stronger than I thought I was.

I learned to love who I am despite what anyone would say about or to me. This gave me the courage to really stand up to anyone or any obstacle in my life.

I used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care.

I know how strong I am mentally, how I work on myself.

I'm learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I'm learning my weaknesses.

The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves.

Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to life someone else up.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.