Andre Ward Quotes

I live by honor. I live by integrity. I live by 'never quit.' It's not a cool T-shirt phrase for me.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and science - is that you must be ready to stand up for what you think. Decide what you really think is best, and stick with it.

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

I stand behind everything I've done.

The test of any man lies in action.

I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

We shall strive for perfection. We shall not achieve it immediately--but we still shall strive. We may make mistakes--but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.

Nothing deters a good man from what honor requires of him

Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.

My tenacity and determination to be true to the person I had become were sacrosanct.

I fight if I need to, I dance if I need to, yet I won't compromise my integrity and pride.

If there's a principle really worth sticking up for, I'll go the whole way.

I want you to think about your grandfather's integrity and grit when you're staring at the ceiling of your barracks room, but I also want you to think a little deeper.

From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.

If you can go out there and stand up for what it is you believe in no matter how many times you are knocked down, in the end the swinging of your own blows will exhaust them.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.

As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

You can't let challenges argue you out of doing what you know is the right thing.