John Wayne Quotes

Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid.

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.

I’ve always followed my father’s advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to.

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.

I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

A goal, a love, and a dream give you total control over your body and your life.

A man ought to do what he thinks is right.

Fixing a broken government isn’t complicated but it’s not easy either.

I won’t apologize for my taste in art.

A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’

We all look at pictures of ourselves and say, ‘Oh, I look terrible.’ I always want to say, ‘Well, why didn’t you look good?’

Never apologize and never explain; it’s a sign of weakness.

Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.

I’m the stuff men are made of.

I’m responsible only for what I say, not for what you understand.

John Wayne Quotes part 2

I’d rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

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.

I define character as being able to face adversity.

I have too many shortcomings, but I don’t have a single prejudice.

I don’t want to know who’s going to win; I want to know why it’s being called a fight.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters.

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.

There has to be something inside you that makes you want to stick it out and fight it out. Being determined to face challenges head-on is what counts.

You don’t need to be elected to serve the public.

Don’t apologize – it’s a sign of weakness.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.

What you do in life echoes throughout eternity.

When people speak ill of you, simply live so that nobody believes them.

Nothing gives one person so much strength as realizing that he or she is the other person’s last resort.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

When you stop fighting, that’s death.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties than anything else.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

A goal, a love, and a dream give you total control over your body and your life.

Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid.

A man worth his salt can handle anything.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.

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.

I never have really become accustomed to the ‘John.’ Nobody ever really calls me John… I’ve always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne.

When you stop fighting, that’s death.

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.

My hope is that our country will constantly change, even if we can compete with these other countries. We have a new system, and my hope is that we won’t throw it away.

I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.

I know I’m not the best at anything, but I’m better than a lot of people.