John Wayne Quotes

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.

The reason there are so many stupid people is because it's illegal to kill 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.

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'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

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.

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.

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 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.

Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

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

I didn't vote for him, but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job.

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

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

Out here, due process is a bullet.

I never trust a man that doesn't drink.

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

My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.

Get off your horse and drink your milk.

A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.

I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst's couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.

Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let's go! We're burnin' daylight!

Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don't trust ambiguity. John Wayne

A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.

We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

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.

When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to the point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.

If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.

You're short on ears and long on mouth.

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

A man ought to do what he thinks is right

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch.

I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women

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.

When you stop fighting, that's death.

The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.

Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.

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.

My favorite four-letter words are 'hard work'.

You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.

Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

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