1. “Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.” – John Wayne
2. “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.” – John Wayne
3. “If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’” – John Wayne
4. “Cause even grown men need understanding.” – John Wayne
5. “Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.” – John Wayne
6. “Talk low, Talk slow, and Don’t say too much.” – John Wayne
7. “As we live in an insane world major, maybe it’s time we gave insane solutions a chance.” – John Wayne
8. “Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.” – John Wayne
9. “Fear is just one of the many words I don’t know the meaning of.” – John Wayne
10. “True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.” – John Wayne
11. “Men forget everything; women remember everything.” – John Wayne
12. “Out here, due process is a bullet.” – John Wayne
13. “Out here a man settles his own problems.” – John Wayne
14. “Get off your horse and drink your milk.” – John Wayne
15. “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.” – John Wayne
16. “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. ” – John Wayne
17. “I’d like to know why the well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazing and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” – John Wayne
18. “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.” – John Wayne
19. “Well, there are some things a man just can’t run away from.” – John Wayne
20. “Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you’re stupid” – John Wayne
21. “I’m responsible only for what I say, not what you understand.” – John Wayne
22. “You can take everything a man has as long as you leave him his dignity.” – John Wayne
23. “We brought nothing into this world and it’s certain we can carry nothing out.” – John Wayne
24. “I’d like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” – John Wayne
25. “When you stop fighting, that’s death.” – John Wayne
26. “A man ought to do what he thinks is right.” – John Wayne
27. “One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.” – John Wayne
28. “We’re burnin’ daylight.” – John Wayne
29. “A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.” – John Wayne
30. “I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.” – John Wayne
31. “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.” – John Wayne
32. “Don’t hit your posset with a stick mister, it tends to make you cough.” – John Wayne
33. “Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.” – John Wayne
34. “My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.” – John Wayne
35. “My name is John Wayne. When I was a kid I had ring worm. Hell, I was more worm than boy for a couple of years.” – John Wayne
36. “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
37. “Life it tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid.” – John Wayne
38. “What’s the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you get experience? Wrong decisions.” – John Wayne
39. “Hurry it up. We’re burning daylight!”- John Wayne
40. “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.” – John Wayne
41. “Seen better fights than this at a prayer meeting.” – John Wayne
42. “The reason there are so many stupid people is because it’s illegal to kill them.” – John Wayne
43. “Are you going to believe what you see or what I tell you?” – John Wayne
44. “Hell, the truth is that I was named after a dog!” – John Wayne
45. “TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!” – John Wayne
46. “All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be some place else.” – John Wayne
47. “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.” – John Wayne
48. “Just one more question, Pilgrim. How far up your ass do you want my boot?” – John Wayne
49. “If you can’t be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.” – John Wayne
50. “I’m a greedy old man. Life’s been good to me, and I want some more of it.” – John Wayne
51. “Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid.” – John Wayne
52. “There’s right and there’s wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you’re living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you’re dead as a beaver hat.” – John Wayne
53. “You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.” – John Wayne
54. “A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.” – John Wayne
55. “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.” – John Wayne
56. “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.” – John Wayne
57. “I never trust a man that doesn’t drink.” – John Wayne
58. “When you come against trouble, it’s never half as bad if you face up to it.” – John Wayne
59. “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.” – John Wayne
60. “My favorite four-letter words are ‘hard work’.” – John Wayne
61. “Of course I know who you are. You’re my girl. I love you.” – John Wayne
62. “There’s been no top authority saying what marijuana does to you. I really don’t know that much about it. I tried it once but it didn’t do anything to me.” – John Wayne
63. “Most men hate to shop. That’s why the men’s department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.” – John Wayne
64. “It’s getting to be ri-goddamn-diculous.” – John Wayne
65. “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.” – John Wayne
66. “Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!” – John Wayne
67. “If you’ve got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.” – John Wayne
68. “Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist’s couch.” – John Wayne
69. “I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.” – John Wayne
70. “You’re short on ears and long on mouth.” – John Wayne