Tony Dungy Quotes

You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.

Be a pro. • Act like a champion. • Respond to adversity; don’t react. • Be on time. Being late means either it’s not important to you or you can’t be relied upon. • Execute. Do what you’re supposed to do when you’re supposed to do it. Not almost. All the way. Not most of the time. All of the time. • Take ownership. Whatever it takes. No excuses, no explanations.

If you want to make a difference in the lives of the people you lead, you must be willing to walk alongside them, to lift and encourage them, to share moments of understanding with them, and to spend time with them, not just shout down at them from on high.

God’s definition of success is really one of significance-the significant difference our lives can make in the lives of others. The significance doesn’t show up in won-loss records, long resumes, or the trophies gathering dust on our mantels. It’s found in the hearts and lives of those we’ve come across who are in some way better because of the way we lived.

It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.

Integrity doesn't come in degrees: low, medium, or high. You either have integrity or you don't.

Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.

Your life has been intentionally designed by God to have a uniquely significant and eternal impact on the world around you.

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our commitment to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve excellence. Only VISION allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. VISION has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our VISION is what we become in life.

Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. Those are the methods of a mentor leader.

You have gifts, abilities, and dreams no one else has.

Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

Be successful not just in what you do, but in who you are.

What will people remember us for? Are other people’s lives better because we lived? Did we make a difference? Did we use to the fullest the gifts and abilities God gave us? Did we give our best effort, and did we do it for the right reasons?

Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average.

DON'T FEAR FAILURE. Fear being successful at things that don't matter

What you do is not as important as how you do it.

Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well.

We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact - for good.

It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.

You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.

Take a moment to think about your answer to this question: Am I prepared to have great success and not get any credit for it?