John Wayne Quotes & Sayings

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

“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, but it's tougher if you're stupid.”

“Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.”

“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.”

“Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.”

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

“Get off your horse and drink your milk.”

“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.”

“When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.”