Tony Dungy Quotes

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.

Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.

I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.

What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.

People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.

People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character

Growing up I watched examples of how not to treat people. I knew when I got into certain positions that I wasn't going to talk to people the way that they did. My mindset is, if you want to see the true character of a person watch how they treat those who can't do anything for them.

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

The best way to learn how to become trustworthy is to study other trustworthy people.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

I think most people are decent people. I don't know if they could stand the pressure he's under, but most people aspire to be decent people.

People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man.

In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.

As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.