Deontay Wilder Quotes

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

No public man can be just a little crooked.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.

Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

A clear conscience is a sure card.

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.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

My future is righteousness.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

If you had to pick between being moral and successful, obviously I'd choose to be moral. However if you can choose both, will you choose both? I'd say definitely.

Don’t put yourself in a situation where you will not be able to achieve your ideals without violating them.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.

His conduct still right with his argument wrong.