Roy Rogers Quotes

I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.

As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.

I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.

During the next half-century or more, my race must continue passing through the severe American crucible. We are to be tested in our patience, our forbearance, our perseverance, our power to endure wrong, to withstand temptations, to economize, to acquire and use skill; our ability to compete, to succeed in commerce, to disregard the superficial for the real, the appearance for the substance, to be great and yet small, learned and yet simple, high and yet the servant of all. This, this is the passport to all that is best in the life of our Republic, and the Negro must possess it, or be de barred.

I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

I strongly believe that through dedication and perseverance, one can overcome adversity to achieve success. It is a privilege to accept membership in the Horatio Alger Association, an organization which promotes this principle.

I think you should never really feel like you've 'made it.'

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.