Will Rogers Quotes

• We can’t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

  Will Rogers

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• If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Success

• The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Success

• It’s great to be great but it’s greater to be human.

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• When a man goes in for politics over here, he has no time to labour, and any man that labours has no time to fool with politics. Over there, politics is an obligation; over here it’s a business.

  Will Rogers

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• There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.

  Will Rogers

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• I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn’t know anything else.

  Will Rogers

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• The United States is the only country ever to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

  Will Rogers

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• You can’t say civilization don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

  Will Rogers

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• Communism is like prohibition, it’s a good idea but it won’t work.

  Will Rogers

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• I bet you if I had met him and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn’t like.

  Will Rogers

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• The Income Tax return has made more Liars out of the American people than Golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don’t know when it’s through if you are a Crook or a Martyr.

  Will Rogers

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• You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

  Will Rogers

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• Will you please tell me what you do with all the vice presidents a bank has?… The United States is the biggest business institution in the world and they only have one vice president and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.

  Will Rogers

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• Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

  Will Rogers

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• 

  Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Humor, Inspirational, Success

  Tags in Sit, Track

• Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Happiness

• Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Funny, Humor

  Tags in Happening, Long

• All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Funny, Humor

  Tags in Papers, Alibi

• Always drink upstream from the herd.

  Will Rogers

  Topics in Advice, Funny

Will Rogers (143)

Birth:	4th November, 1879
Death:	15th August, 1935
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Columnist, Comedian, Radio Personality

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