John Wayne was an American icon, actor and filmmaker. An Academy Award-winner for True Grit (1969), John Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades.
John Wayne appeared with many important Hollywood stars of his era, and his last public appearance was at the Academy Awards ceremony on April 9, 1979.
Here are 40 epic John Wayne quotes:
1. “You’re short on ears and long on mouth.” –
2. “A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.” –
3. “There’s a lot of things great about life that I like. But I think tomorrow is the most important thing. It comes to 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.” –
4. “And so he plays his part; the sixth age shifts’… I usually have trouble with that phrase.” – Dignity
5. “Did I ever tell you my father’s last words to me? like ‘Careful son, I don’t think the safety is on’. Before that.” –
6. According to John Wayne “If everything isn’t black and white I say why the hell not.” – Life
7. “Like Fire can be our friend. Whether it’s toasting marshmallows or raining down on Charlie.” –
8. John Wayne says “I haven’t had a fight since I was eleven. I only won that because she had an asthma attack.” Courage is being scared –
9. “When you side with a man you stay with him, and if you can’t do that you’re like some animal. You’re finished.” Battles are fought
John Wayne quotes on courage
10. “Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.” John Wayne quotes and sayings
11. “Drop that or I’ll blow ya straight to Jesus.” –
12. “Like we live in an insane world major, maybe it’s time we gave insane solutions a chance.” –
13. According to john wayne “Life is tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid.” –
14. John Wayne says “LikeTomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.” Phrase feo fuerte – John Wayne quotes and sayings
15. “John Wayne says A man oughta do what he thinks is best.” Formal which means – Sign of weakness
16. John Wayne says “Like Fear is just one of the many words I don’t know the meaning of.” –
17. “Seen better fights than this at a prayer meeting.” feo fuerte y formal –
18. According to John Wayne “There’s right and there’s wrong. Y’gotta do one or the other. Do the other and you may be walking around, but you’re dead as a beaver hat.” –
19. According to john wayne “A goal, A love, and A dream give you total control over your body and your life” Fighting that s death –
20. “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.” –
21. “Creed to live thinking people is a dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.” Saddling up anyway – S
22. “I won’t be wronged. I won’t be insulted.Like I won’t be death but saddling on. I don’t do these, and I require the same from them.” stop fighting and being scared to death – John Wayne quote from the shootist
23. “If you’ve got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.” – Daylight
24. “All battles would like are fought by scared men who’d rather be someplace else.” Ugly strong –
25. “Talk low, talk slow, and Don’t say too much.” –
26. “My hope and prayer are that everyone knows and loves our country for what she really is and what she stands for.” Mexicans have a phrase – Place else
27. John Wayne says “Like 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. ” Thing in life comes and life comes into us –
28. “Like I won’t be wronged, won’t be insulted. I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” –
29. “I’d like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” –
30. According to John Wayne “Get off your horse and drink your milk.” – John Wayne inspirational quotes
31. “Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.” – John Wayne inspirational quotes
32. John Wayne says “In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. Like there is no jealousy in such pictures.” – John Wayne
33. “Put it in a nutshell? You couldn’t put it in a barrel without a bottom. You’re the longest winded bastard I’ve ever known.” – John Wayne
34. “Friend, man s got there’s nobody up there shooting back at you. It isn’t always being fast or even accurate that counts. It’s being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren’t willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won’t.” – John Wayne
35. According to John Wayne “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.” remembered well the Mexicans – John Wayne
36. “Hey, stupid! Where do you think you’re going? Get back there with the herd, you muttonhead!” – Weakness John Wayne
37. John Wayne says “I know those law books mean a lot to you, but not out here. Out here a man settles his own problems.” – John Wayne quotes and sayings
38. According to John Wayne “Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Like to be remembered. 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 quotes
39. “Now you understand. Rather be some place. Anything goes wrong, anything at all… your fault, my fault, nobody’s fault… like it doesn’t matter… I’m gonna blow your head off. It’s as simple as that.” – John Wayne quotes
40. “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 Quote
41. “A lot of guys get mistakes, which means he was ugly strong and had dignity I guess, but every one we make, a whole stack of chips goes with it. Like we make a mistake, and some guy doesn’t walk away – forevermore, he doesn’t walk away.” Never apologize- John Wayne quotes
42. “When the road looks rough ahead, got to do john remember the ‘Man upstairs’ and the word HOPE. Hang onto both and ‘tough it out’.” – John Wayne
43. According to 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, reading all my life going out to do a good day’s work, and living the best life they know how against the law of odds.” Loved reading- John Wayne
These John Wayne Quotes are truly epic.
