John Wayne famous quotes

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.
-- John Wayne

#Men #Battle #Scared

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.
-- John Wayne

#Country #Patriotism #Faults

A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.
-- John Wayne

#Eye #Men #Second Chance

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
-- John Wayne

#Regret #Yesterday #Tomorrow

I am a demonstrative man, a baby picker-upper, a hugger and a kisser--that's my nature.
-- John Wayne

#Baby #Men

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
-- John Wayne

#Courage #Veterans Day #Military

The guy you see on the screen isn’t really me. I’m Duke Morrison, and I never was and never will be a film personality like JOHN WAYNE . I know him well. I’m one of his closest students. I have to be. I made a living out of him.
-- John Wayne

#Personality #Guy #Dukes

You're short on ears and long on mouth.
-- John Wayne

#Long #Ears #Mouths

My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.
-- John Wayne

#Country #Prayer #And Love

Get off your horse and drink your milk.
-- John Wayne

#Horse #Milk #Drink

I'm an American actor. I work with my clothes on. I have to. Riding a horse can be pretty tough on your legs and elsewheres.
-- John Wayne

#Horse #Clothes #Riding

I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst's couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.
-- John Wayne

#Hate #Simple #Nuance

I never trust a man that doesn't drink.
-- John Wayne

#Men #Never Trust #Drink

In my acting, I have to identify with something in the character. The big tough boy on the side of right - that's me. Simple themes. Same me from the nuances. All I do is sell sincerity and I've been selling the hell out of that ever since I started.
-- John Wayne

#Character #Boys #Simple

Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.
-- John Wayne

#Government #Giving #Promise

True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.
-- John Wayne

#Basketball #Decision #Done

Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.
-- John Wayne

#Running #Men #Running Away

Out here, due process is a bullet.
-- John Wayne

#Bullets #Process #Due Process

I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.
-- John Wayne

#Real #Fighting #Men

You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
-- John Wayne

#Men #Gentleman #Manhood

Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.
-- John Wayne

#People #Giving #Causes

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

#Forgiveness #Sorry #Apology

Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.
-- John Wayne

#Life Is #More Time #Knocked Down

I play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I've been doing okay, haven't I?
-- John Wayne

#Character #Play #Wayne

We’re burnin’ daylight.
-- John Wayne

#Daylight

TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!
-- John Wayne

#Scared #Saddles #True Courage

I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women
-- John Wayne

#Children #Wife #Three

Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch.
-- John Wayne

#Cowboy #Saws #Couches

When the road looks rough ahead, remember the 'Man upstairs' and the word HOPE. Hang onto both and 'tough it out'.
-- John Wayne

#Men #Looks #Tough

Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid
-- John Wayne

#Stupid #Tough #Life Is

A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.
-- John Wayne

#Jobs #Men #Matter

I believe in white supremacy, until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people ... I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from [the Native Americans] ... Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
-- John Wayne

#Country #Believe #Responsibility

Out here a man settles his own problems.
-- John Wayne

#Men #Problem #Settling

A man ought to do what he thinks is right
-- John Wayne

#Men #Thinking

I'm the stuff men are made of!
-- John Wayne

#Men #Stuff #Made

Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it.
-- John Wayne

#Country #Song #Cowboy

There's been no top authority saying what ***** does to you. I really don't know that much about it. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me.
-- John Wayne

#Marijuana #Doe #Authority

I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.
-- John Wayne

#Thinking #People #Lazy

When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.
-- John Wayne

#Bangs #Looks #Half

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.
-- John Wayne

#Leadership #Sports #Men

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
-- John Wayne

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.
-- John Wayne

#Journey #Grieving #Being Afraid

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
-- John Wayne

#Black And White #Reality #Conservative