Jon Stewart Quotes

I want people to be entrepreneurs, but I want them to do it for the right reasons, because they think they can change the world, because they think they have got something of value to give to the world. Not because they think they can make a lot of money.

As much as I think I've inspired people in the world, I'd like to be more involved bringing about world peace.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

I don't want to go crazy pretending to be someone all the time. But at the same time, if I have the ability to influence people, and we have X amount of energy in the day, it's not even our option anymore - it's our duty to do something positive in the world.

Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.

I think if people read more, that is a better world.

None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

When you are happy, the people around you are happy, too, and it inspires them to change their own world.

That it's possible to do positive things and I think that's how we're going to set an example to be respected as women in the world.

I think that at the end of the day, when people understand the circumstances that led to the circumstances, they begin to sway their views.

I think every person has the ability to affect change...through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world.

I think if you put a smile on people's faces, they give that back to you.

Think good, speak good and do good, to bring about positive change in the world.

I think sometimes you don't understand how to convey an idea, depending on the moment you're living in.

We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things. I think political science is bad at prediction. I think what we really do well is in a number of instances where politics matters, we can do a better job of tell you what is happening now, than other people. So, we can look at Syria today. We can look at the Eurozone today. And we can look at areas where politics is a driver and we can give you a pretty good sense in those areas of here is how to understand today.

I think being able to identify with young people and...their capacity to change the world and shake things up. I think that's the greatest strength.

If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.

I think certain people are the way they are for certain reasons that we can't necessarily judge without knowing.

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.

...there are people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.

I want people to leave the theater and think, "How can I be a better person?" That's the only way things are going to improve.

Most people, no matter what they do, they don't think they're a bad person. The place where their actions are coming from is a complicated place and a whole personal history. I definitely think that it helped me to look at the world a little less judgmentally.

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.

Many people think that we have no shared value system in the world today but we actually do.