Jeff Van Gundy Quotes

I want to be more than just an artist and be a people's person and do a lot of stuff for people.

I want to be remembered as the biggest philanthropist in Turkey.

It's important to do see the results of your philanthropy while you are alive.

I really enjoy charity work and helping people.

I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place.

My biggest aspiration is to inspire people to do good. I believe that our wish for a harmonious world begins and ends with doing good. To inspire and empower people to focus on goodness, I wrote a new book called 'Activate Your Goodness: Transforming the World through Doing Good.'

My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

I want to do something to help people.

Oprah Winfrey's global influence is unparalleled. Not only has her generosity and firm belief that education is the key to a better life benefited countless women and children around the world, but her example has also inspired millions of people to give back in ways big and small.

The culture of caring and giving permeates many Indian families. In their own way, they are engaged in philanthropic pursuits.

One day I got an invite to help the Christina Noble Foundation, and by this stage, I'd already been talking about her for 10 years. I said 'yes' right away, and that was the first time I met her.

I love helping out good people who are doing good things.

I want to be remembered for having a great love for my fellow man. Because, you know, I do.

Some people help thousands of people directly, like Marie Curie or Susan B. Anthony. Others help us by inspiring us, like Amelia Earhart. But you do have to help someone.

Tim Tebow is one of my biggest inspirations. I actually want to be able to do some of the things that he does in terms of the amount of charity work and the non-profit work, and the way he impacts people off the field. I think that is what is most inspiring to me about him.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

I believe that everyone, regardless of who they are, should do something that is greater than themselves. Whether it's adoption, or helping people who are sick or poor, or whatever. That's what God put us on this earth to do.

My argument is that charity does indeed start at home, but it doesn't stop there.

I hope that when I'm 90 years old, I've accomplished a legacy that isn't all about me. I hope it's a legacy about the people who our foundation helps.

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

Although there are people saying I'm putting on a show, I'm hoping more will emulate my 'performance.' If more people did, more needy people would get help.

I very much believe in teaching young people about philanthropy, and to give back.

I love getting out on the streets and helping people.