Will Rogers Quotes

The future requires action and not mere conversation.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

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

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

Don't think, just do.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.