These Cowboy quotes will inspire you.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable and encouraging Cowboy quotes, Cowboy sayings, and Cowboy proverbs.
Inspirational Cowboy Quotes
- “Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.” ~ John Wayne
- “An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.” ~ Will Rogers
- “The bigger a man’s gun the smaller his doodlewick.” ~ Calamity Jane
- “Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.” ~ Will Rogers
- “You can’t tell how good a man or a watermelon is ’til they get thumped.” ~ Roy Bean
- “Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb” ~ Will Rogers, Cowboy quotes about horses
- “Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse.” ~ Texas Bix Bender
- “There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” ~ Will Rogers
- “Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‘n puttin’ it back in.” ~ Will Rogers
- “If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.” ~ Will Rogers
- “Always drink upstream from the herd.” ~ Will Rogers
- “The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it’s a state of mind. It’s whatever you want it to be.” ~ Tom Mix
- “Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.” ~ Will Rogers
- “It’s a lot like nuts and bolts – if the rider’s nuts, the horse bolts!” ~ Nicholas Evans
- “I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy.” ~ Michael Biehn
- “Do right and risk the consequences.” ~ Sam Houston
- “It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.” ~ John Ford
- “It don’t take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.” ~ Will Rogers
- “Don’t interfere with something that ain’t bothering you none.” ~ Roy Bean
- “Never slap a man who’s chewing tobacco.” ~ Will Rogers
- “Don’t squat with your spurs on.” ~ Will Rogers
- “The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.” ~ J. Frank Dobie
- “If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen are defrocked, shouldn’t it follow that cowboys would be deranged?”
- “When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.” ~ Tammara Webber
- “No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “I’m a cowboy who never saw a cow.” ~ Johnny Mercer
- “I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I’m an emotional kind of person anyway.” ~ Josh Holloway
- “We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy… able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.” ~ Morrie Schwartz
- “I don’t care about going down in history as a great bull rider or bronc rider. I hope people will remember me as a great cowboy.” ~ Ty Murray
- “A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys – they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.” ~ Val Kilmer
- “Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.” ~ Will Rogers
- “Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.” ~ Texas Bix Bender
- “I’m not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.” ~ Mark Goddard
- “The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.” ~ Dustin Hoffman
- “Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.” ~ Steve Kanaly
- “I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I’d dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.” ~ Illeana Douglas, Cowboy quotes vintage
- “You’d look out and there’d be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.” ~ Bernadette Peters, Cowboy quotes about love
- “You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
- “When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.” ~ Bruce Dern
- “I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country here to settle.” ~ Davy Crockett
- “A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There’s got to be good guys and there’s got to be bad guys. And that’s what people pay for – to see the bad guys get beat.” ~ Sonny Liston
- “Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another.” ~ Mercedes McCambridge
- “Always take a good look at what you’re about to eat. It’s not so important to know what it is, but it’s critical to know what it was” ~ Texas Bix Bender
- “France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.” ~ Adam Michnik
- “A lovely horse is always an experience… It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.” ~ Beryl Markham
- “Now look! That damned cowboy is president of the United States!” ~ Mark Hanna
- “In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word ‘cowboy’ implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people’s individualism.” ~ Viggo Mortensen
- “I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?” ~ Liam Neeson
- “There’s nothin’ in life that’s worth doin’, if it cain’t be done from a horse.” ~ Red Steagall
- “The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.” ~ Richard O’Brien
- “Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.” ~ Ann Landers
- “Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.” ~ Steve Earle
- “I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.” ~ John Hurt
- “Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I’ve always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.” ~ Lee Trevino
- “If the Cowboys and Titans ain’t playing, I’m not interested.” ~ Tanya Tucker
- “I had done my first picture and I didn’t have anything to do for a while. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.” ~ Dick York
- “I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let’s just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.” ~ Barry Watson
- “When I was a kid, my stepdad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.” ~ Tim McGraw
- “Don’t dig for water under the outhouse.”
- “I never miss a good chance to shut up” ~ James Patterson
- “I think you’re going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It’s Americana, it’s part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I’m concerned.” ~ Clayton Moore
- “Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.” ~ Debbie Macomber
- “Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.” ~ Warren Buffett
- “There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can’t think of one at the moment.” ~ Paul Theroux
- “I didn’t want to play a rancher. I didn’t want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn’t.” ~ Tim McGraw
Summary
A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks. The historic American cowboy of the late 19th century arose from the vaquero traditions of northern Mexico and became a figure of special significance and legend.
