Clark Gable Quotes

Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'

Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.

Don't give up, courage is my conviction.

Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.

I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.

People can say what they want about me. But I've got a big heart and will keep going.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.

I know if I stay true to myself and stick to my guns, I will never fail myself.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

Never give up, no matter what.

When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.

I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.