Will Rogers Quotes

I know I've done good things, I know I've done bad things.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

'Restaurant Man' is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.

I try to learn from every experience, good or bad.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

All my mistakes, all my accomplishments, the good things I've done, the bad I've done, and the mistakes I've learned from, the mistakes I've never done before - all of that made me into what I am now.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

I certainly am the first to acknowledge where I don't have strengths, but I think I'm pretty good at acknowledging where I do.

You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are.

I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.