John Wayne’s birth name was Marion Robert Morrison. Robert became Mitchell because his parents wanted to use the name Robert for his younger brother. He used the stage name of John Wayne (and was known as the Duke), and the rest is history.
John Wayne is famous as an actor with a distinctive walk and accent. From his first role to his last appearance on stage, he played the hero – a man who lived by the Code of the West. John Wayne established himself as a brand long before the days of social media. He was consistent in his behavior and the roles he chose to play.
The John Wayne brand stands for integrity – the ability to do the right thing regardless of what it costs you – to give up your life if necessary. Then there is hard work – shown by the characters and by the man himself. He built his career in movies through persistence and a willingness to learn and develop. Finally, there is compassion and acceptance of his fellow man or woman with all their faults and failings.
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
We can learn from John Wayne to set ourselves high standards and to live up to our promises. We can choose to set goals and to work methodically and energetically towards them. We can behave consistently and kindly towards others and seek to do the right thing even when it causes us problems. We can write our script and play the role of the hero in our lives.
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne
The famous John Wayne quotes are surprisingly philosophical. They are spoken by a man who did not acknowledge his relationship with God until he was dying. These John Wayne quotes reveal a sincere, thoughtful approach to life. The John Wayne quotes are not sentimental. They appreciate that we are all flawed human beings, but they are inspiring with down-to-earth wisdom. Enjoy these words from an iconic legend who lived, loved, and laughed with the mindset of a hero.
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John Wayne Quotes
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.
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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.
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You’re short on ears and long on mouth.
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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.
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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.
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Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.
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A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.
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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.
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I’d like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.
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A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by.
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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.
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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.
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Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.
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Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
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My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.
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A goal, a love, and a dream give you total control over your body and your life.
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Talk low, Talk slow, and Don’t say too much.
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In my acting, I have to identify with something in the character. The big tough boy on the side of right — that’s me. John Wayne
All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be some place else.
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Get off your butt and join the Marines.
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A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do.
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When you stop fighting, that’s death.
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We’re burnin’ daylight.
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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.
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It’s getting to be ri-goddamn-diculous.
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A man who won’t stand for what he believes isn’t a man!
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If you’ve got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
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I would like to be remembered, well… “FeoFuerte y formal,” which means he was ugly, strong, and had dignity.
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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.
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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.
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Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.
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When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed.
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A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life.
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You can take everything a man has as long as you leave him his dignity.
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COWBOYS, just like the word says.
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A man ought to do what he thinks is right.
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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.
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Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.
John Wayne
I would think somebody like Jane Fonda and her idiot husband would be terribly ashamed and saddened that they were a part of causing us to stop helping the South Vietnamese. Now look what’s happening. They’re getting killed by the millions. Murdered by the millions. How the hell can she and her husband sleep at night?
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Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid.
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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.
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A lot of guys make mistakes, I guess, but every one we make, a whole stack of chips goes with it. We make a mistake, and some guy don’t walk away—forever more, he doesn’t walk away.
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I would like to be remembered, well … the Mexicans have a phrase, “Feo fuerte y formal”. Which means he was ugly, strong and had dignity.
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I’m the stuff men are made of.
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I’ve loved reading all my life.
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My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
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The worst part of it has been, I think, the adverse effect on family life. It kills off family conversation. And it’s harder to get your children to read books. I became a confirmed reader when I was growing up in Glendale. I’ve loved reading all my life. Now I’ve got this daughter, Aissa, a very bright young lady — but it is a hard job to get her to read. Television’s just too easy.
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All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.
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Just one more question, Pilgrim. How far up your ass do you want my boot?
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In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
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Seen better fights than this at a prayer meeting.
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When the road looks rough ahead, remember the ‘Man upstairs’ and the word HOPE. Hang onto both and ‘tough it out.’
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All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.
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A horse is a horse, it ain’t make a difference what color it is.
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Life it tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid.
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I’m responsible only for what I say, not what you understand. 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.
John Wayne
What’s the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you get experience? Wrong decisions.
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Fear is just one of the many words I don’t know the meaning of.
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If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’
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As we live in an insane world major, maybe it’s time we gave insane solutions a chance.
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Young fella, if you’re looking for trouble, I’ll accommodate ya.
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Drop that or I’ll blow ya straight to Jesus.
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Out here a man settles his own problems.
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I haven’t had a fight since I was eleven. I only won that because she had an asthma attack.
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True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.
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Don’t hit your posset with a stick mister, it tends to make you cough.
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You have a streak of kindness a mile wide.
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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.
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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.
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Liberty Valance is a cancer on this fair town. He’s the cancer and I’m the, uh…what cures cancer?
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I’m a dying man, scared of the dark.
John Wayne
Did I ever tell you my father’s last words to me?
‘Careful son, I don’t think the safety is on’.
Before that.
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I want to go out in the world again and see the trees and the lakes and the hills and the sky.
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Fire can be our friend. Whether it’s toasting marshmallows of raining down on Charlie.
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I wouldn’t make it a habit of calling me that, son.
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I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility.
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I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them, if that’s what you’re asking. Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
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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.
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And so he plays his part; the sixth age shifts’… I usually have trouble with that phrase.
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