Dale Turner Quotes

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

Our ideals are our better selves.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.

You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

A TV camera goes right through your soul. If you're a bad person, people pick that up.

I just want to be the greatest man that I can be while I'm alive, and in that, you have to find the truth. Find the hard truth about yourself.

I am not a performing seal. In your writing, you are tapping into the part that is 'the best' in you. But what you are also filters through in your writing your prejudices, your bitterness. I am not a pretentious person.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

You can focus on the few things that give people a negative image about me, or you can see the other things I've done, or talk to people in my inner circle who know more about who I really am.

Success, for me, is staying true to who you are and not deviating off a path.

I'm going to make a difference in other people's lives because who I am as a person rather than who I was as a football player.

I'm not a perfect human being by any stretch of the imagination. But there is always this little voice inside of me that keeps me where I know I need to be.