John Wayne Quotes

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

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.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

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

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.

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.

Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you’re stupid

True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.

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

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

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.

Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.