“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
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Famous Will Rogers Quotes
“I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.”
“Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.”
“We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us.”
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929
Source: The Will Rogers scrapbook
“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”
“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”
Source: The Writings of Will Rogers
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”
Source: To father, with love: wisdom from Guideposts
“I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.”
“There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.”
“We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.”
“We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.”
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”