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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

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 Men Sports
Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist’s couch.
JOHN WAYNE

Couches Cowboy Saws
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

Clothes Horse Legs Tough
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

Mean Phrases Strong
America is the land of freedom and that’s the way I enjoy living.
JOHN WAYNE

Country Land People Person Way
Sometimes I wonder whose side God’s on.
JOHN WAYNE

God Sides Sometimes
Contrary to what people think, I’m no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.
JOHN WAYNE

People Politician Thinking
A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.
JOHN WAYNE

Creed Jobs Matter Men
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 Nuance Simple
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
JOHN WAYNE

Regret Tomorrow Yesterday
I’ve had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don’t understand women
JOHN WAYNE

Children Three Wife
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

Boys Character Simple
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

Bottles Mirrors Moving
Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.
JOHN WAYNE

Down Knocked Life More Time
I never trust a man that doesn’t drink.
JOHN WAYNE

Drink Men never Trust
When you stop fighting, that’s death.
JOHN WAYNE

Country Death Fighting People Person

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.

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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.

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