Jacques Cousteau Quotes

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It's embedded in me.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

Tom Clarke is dead. He has not our responsibilities. Nobody will ever know what he would do for the situation did not arise for him. But is has risen for us and we must face it with our intelligence and conscious of our responsibility.

More than any other people on Earth, we bear burdens and accept risks unprecedented in their size and their duration, not for ourselves alone but for all who wish to be free.

My great hope for my speck of time on this planet would be that I live and die, and that what I leave behind has made some kind of impression and has been for the better in terms of my family and friends and, in my case, public service.

When all is said and done, I want to die exhausted and empty because I gave everything that was in me. I believe that's why we're all here: to give of ourselves to one another to help create a better world, because you can't take it with you.

When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.

Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.

To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.