Claudia Black Quotes

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

Be strong. Don't be a follower, and always do the right thing. If you have a choice between the right thing and the wrong thing, the right way is always the less stressful.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

I always felt like I was doing the right thing.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

I have to do what's right.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

You must always do what you feel is right.

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.