Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.
JOHN WAYNEWe brought nothing into this world and it’s certain we can carry nothing out.
More John Wayne Quotes
-
-
Most men hate to shop. That’s why the men’s department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.
JOHN WAYNE -
When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.
JOHN WAYNE -
Of course I know who you are. You’re my girl. I love you.
JOHN WAYNE -
A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.
JOHN WAYNE -
If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’
JOHN WAYNE -
I would like to be remembered, well… the Mexicans have a phrase, ‘Feo fuerte y formal’. Which means; he was ugly, strong and had dignity.
JOHN WAYNE -
If you can’t be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.
JOHN WAYNE -
All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be some place else.
JOHN WAYNE -
Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.
JOHN WAYNE -
We brought nothing into this world and it’s certain we can carry nothing out.
JOHN WAYNE -
There’s right and there’s wrong. You got to 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 don’t have to assert my virility. I think my career has shown that I’m not exactly a pantywaist. But I do take pride in my work, even to the point of being the first one on the set in the morning. I’m a professional.
JOHN WAYNE -
Men forget everything; women remember everything.
JOHN WAYNE -
A man is no better than he has to be.
JOHN WAYNE -
Contrary to what people think, I’m no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.
JOHN WAYNE -
A man ought to do what he thinks is right
JOHN WAYNE -
I play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I’ve been doing okay, haven’t I?
JOHN WAYNE -
I never shot nobody I didnt have to.
JOHN WAYNE -
True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.
JOHN WAYNE -
Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist’s couch.
JOHN WAYNE -
I’ve had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don’t understand women
JOHN WAYNE -
One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.
JOHN WAYNE -
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 -
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 -
When you stop fighting, that’s death.
JOHN WAYNE -
I figured I needed a gimmick, so I dreamed up this drawl, the squint and a way of moving meant to suggest that I wasn’t looking for trouble but would just as soon throw a bottle at your head as not. I practiced in front of a mirror.
JOHN WAYNE