Tony Dungy Quotes

First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.

For a coach to be able to help you, they need to get to know you well. They need to see what's happening - that you are not in the mood to talk, or something like this. It is very hard to find the right person.

We hope to encourage George and Charlotte to speak about their feelings, and to give them the tools and sensitivity to be supportive peers to their friends as they get older.

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.

It's a delightful thing to receive a good word just at your time of need. Encourage someone today.

Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well.

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

My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

My dad has never once told me after a fight that I did well.

Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

You know you can be having a bad day and someone will walk by and say: 'Hey, I love you, Will.' That really cheers you up. That's a really lovely thing.

But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or two, somewhere in our travels, who will tell us that we are noble enough, whether it is true or not. We can ask for someone who will say, “You are noble enough,” and remind us of our good qualities when we have forgotten them, or cast them into doubt.

Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air.

It is important to have someone that supports you and encourage you, someone that makes you feel that you are unstoppable, that you can do anything in the world because you have him.

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.

Who really benefits from discouragement? More often than not, encouragement is exactly what is needed.

I think it's always important to give immediate positive reinforcement.

Alice is the most… supportive.

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual heights without it. No one ever lived without it.

No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.

Everything that you do or say that raises the self-esteem of another raises yours as well.