John Wayne Quotes

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.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

I won’t be wronged. I 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.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!

All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be some place else.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

It’s kind of a sad thing when a normal love of country makes you a super patriot. I do think we have a pretty wonderful country, and I thank God that He chose me to live here.

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. It’s a name that goes well together, and it’s like one word – 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.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

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

Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded…. They shout you down and won’t let you speak if you disagree with them.

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