Best John Wayne Quotes, Advice And Thoughts

 

 

 

Marion Mitchell Morrison has known as John Wayne and nicknamed ‘Duke’, was an American actor, filmmaker and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. He was among the top film industry draws for three decades.

Born – Marion Robert Morrison May 26, 1907, Winterset, Iowa, U.S.

Died – June 11, 1979 (aged 72) Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Net Worth – He had a net worth of $50 million.

 

 

Here are some of the Best John Wayne Quotes

 

 

 

 

“Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid.” – John Wayne

“Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.” – John Wayne

“Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.” – John Wayne

“Courage is being scared to death…saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne

 

“You don’t have to fight to be brave. Millions of good, fine, decent folks show more bravery than heavyweight champs just by getting out of bed every morning, going out to do a good day’s work and living the best life they know how against the law of odds.” – John Wayne

“A man ought to do what he thinks is right” – John Wayne

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

“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

 

“If you can’t be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.” – John Wayne

“When you stop fighting, that’s death.” – John Wayne

 

 

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“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. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.” – John Wayne

“Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much” – John Wayne

 

“When the road looks rough ahead, remember the ‘Man upstairs’ and the word HOPE. Hang onto both and ‘tough it out’.” – John Wayne

“A lot of guys make mistakes, I guess, but everyone we make, a whole stack of chips goes with it. We make a mistake, and some guy doesn’t walk away – forever more, he doesn’t walk away.” – John Wayne

“A horse is a horse, it ain’t make a difference what colour it is.” – John Wayne

“Get off your butt and join the Marines” – John Wayne

 

“The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that’s what we have to put up with. I think that any person that’s in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.”- John Wayne

“I’ve had three wives, six children, and six grandchildren and I still don’t understand women.” – John Wayne

“If a man says, “I’ll call you,” and he doesn’t, he didn’t forget. . . . he didn’t lose your number. . . . he didn’t die. He just didn’t want to call you.” – John Wayne

“I suppose my best attribute if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s that way I am.” – John Wayne

 

 

 

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“Out here, due process is a bullet!” – John Wayne

“Young fella, if you’re looking for trouble I’ll accommodate ya” – John Wayne

“I wouldn’t make it a habit of calling me that son” – John Wayne

“I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head-on.” – John Wayne

 

“I may sound like a bible beater yelling up a revival at a river crossing camp meeting but that doesn’t change the truth none, there’s right and there’s wrong. You gotta 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.” – John Wayne

“I’ve made over 250 pictures and have never shot a guy in the back. Change it.” – John Wayne

“Now you understand. Anything goes wrong, anything at all… your fault, my fault, nobody’s fault… it doesn’t matter… I’m gonna blow your head off. It’s as simple as that.” – John Wayne

“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

 

“All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be someplace else” – John Wayne

“Don’t say it’s a fine morning or I’ll shoot ya” – John Wayne

 

 

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“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.” John Wayne

“Government has not wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you-either by direct takes or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.” – John Wayne

 

“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

“I know those law books mean a lot to you, but not out here. Out here a man settles his own problems.” – John Wayne

“You can call me Father, you can call me Jacob, you can call me Jake. You can call me a dirty son-of-a-bitch, but if you EVER call me Daddy again, I’ll finish this fight.” – John Wayne

“The reason there are so many stupid people is because it’s illegal to kill them.” – John Wayne

 

“You left a boy out there to do a man’s job!” – John Wayne

“Hey, stupid! Where do you think you’re going? Get back there with the herd, you muttonhead!” – John Wayne

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

“Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.” – John Wayne

 

 

 

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