We're burnin' daylight!

Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.

I'm the stuff men are made of!

There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.

A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.

True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.