Jacques Cousteau Quotes

You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

The foundation of leadership is your own moral compass. I think the best quality leaders really know where their moral compass is. They get it out when they are making decisions. It's their guide. But not only do you have to have a moral compass and take it out of your pocket, it has to have a true north.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

You can't be right by doing wrong; you can't be wrong by doing right.

If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.