If you don't stick to your values when they are being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies. —Jon Stewart
“If you don't stick to your values when they are being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.”

Jon Stewart TELEVISION HOST, WRITER, COMEDIAN

Integrity
Pass It On®
Pass It On®

  email   print

Your Comments
Tindo from Cameroon  JULY 29, 2017
So inspiring
Sophie from Oregon JULY 27, 2017
True
Steve from NC JULY 19, 2017
Exactly correct. They are what I call "value INDICATORS"... something you might LIKE to value but really don't want to put the effort into the decision to REALLY VALUE it.... just a like or a hobby!
OD Sharma from New Delhi JULY 19, 2017
Beautiful quote

Here are some other inspiring quotes you might like.
Kindness is... anything that lifts another person. #<Author:0x00007f6c49789698>
KINDNESS
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. #<Author:0x00007f6c497a9628>
TEACHING BY EXAMPLE
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. #<Author:0x00007f6c497d7028>
DEVOTION
Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners. #<Author:0x00007f6c497f0de8>
GOOD MANNERS
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. #<Author:0x00007f6c49823950>
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'. #<Author:0x00007f6c49855158>
LISTENING
My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me. #<Author:0x00007f6c4989c1e8>
FAMILY
The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life is the moment you gain the power to change ANYTHING in your life. #<Author:0x00007f6c49901930>
RESPONSIBILITY
Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. #<Author:0x00007f6c49952d80>
ACHIEVEMENT
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. #<Author:0x00007f6c49a80360>
PERSISTENCE
What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world, but his having gone to search for it on the faith of his own opinion. #<Author:0x00007f6c49b31908>
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
It takes two flints to make a fire. #<Author:0x00007f6c49b909f8>
TEAMWORK
Joy is not in things; it is in us. #<Author:0x00007f6c49c29770>
JOY
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. #<Author:0x00007f6c49c7b430>
LISTENING
When you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. #<Author:0x00007f6c49d625b0>
LISTENING
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. #<Author:0x00007f6c49dea1e0>
JUSTICE
All Pass It On® Quotes