John Wayne Quotes

I think the most important thing that I've learned is that you live and you learn. Try not to make the same mistakes twice.

I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life.

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.

If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.

It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.

I was kind of reflecting on my life and certain experiences, and you know, when I'm teaching and coaching my partners on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I sort of use those stories and anecdotes to help them sort of overcome certain fears.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.

If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.

Life is just a flick of the fingers. Let's face it. And any little bit - you can expand it or enrich it, I think you want to push that and do it.

Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.

During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.