Will Rogers Quotes

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

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

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

When I first took over the team in 2014, the message was, even if you're on the right track, if you sit there, you'll get run over.

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

I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Even if you’re on the right track, you can get run over if your not going fast enough.

The future requires action and not mere conversation.

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

You are either going forward or you are not.

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

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.

I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.