Henry Cloud Quotes

A coach should be a person who is able to help a player mentally.

Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other.

If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, 'You're going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.'

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone.

I let people down easy with inspiration.

Confident people tend to challenge themselves and compete, even when their efforts yield small victories. Small victories build new androgen receptors in the areas of the brain responsible for reward and motivation.

I think every human being in the world appreciates being encouraged and acknowledged.

I think it's so important to have a great support network when you feel like you can't - I would actually go and talk to the people who tell you that you can.

All the appreciation I have been receiving has been very encouraging. It pushes me to do better.

I've always had this fascination with the brain. I'm not really much of a religious person, but like anybody, you are at least fascinated by what some call a soul - what I would call the brain - and who we are and how we work.

It feels good to have people who support you and back you and believe in you.

My parents have always encouraged me to follow my dreams and do what makes me happy.

I've been lucky enough to be surrounded by people that were always supporting me, and I never felt pressure.

It's always a lot easier when you have people around you supporting you.

When you receive criticism, you should take it in your side, but I've received love more than anything else, and that's what motivates me and keeps me going.

The brain is the black box: the final frontier.

Not everybody responds to yelling at 'em or jumping all over 'em. Sometimes you need to put your arm around somebody and encourage them.

My job is not to scream and yell, my job is to cheer you and be positive. If you miss four shots, I'm still going to pass to you.

Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's troubles and land safely on the other side.

By removing the obstacles that have built up over time, you can grow your brain from baseline to super brain.

How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing.

Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.

If you could change the neural pathways in your brain so that you could recall everything you've ever heard, taste, smelled or touched, basically from the womb on, and use it at your disposal, that's an interesting concept.

You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...