Jeff Van Gundy Quotes

From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.

My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.

Difficult times often bring out the best in people.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

When you're successful, there will be friends, people, VIPs rallying around you. When you're down and out, you're all alone. That's why it's important to be a good person. Because whether you're a successful cricketer or not can always change, but the respect you earn by being the person you are stays with you.

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

To the stars through thorns.

No doubt history will say that Eisenhower was a soldier. For my part, I will remember, above all, his goodness. He was a fundamentally good man who knew how to be loved by the Americans.