Will Rogers: Doing

Will Rogers was American humorist and entertainer. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do — well, that’s Memoirs.”

Will Rogers

Source: The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949), Ch. 16

“Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.”

Will Rogers

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”

Will Rogers

Daily Telegram #1172, Will Rogers Sees No Value In All The Time We Save (28 April 1930)
Daily telegrams

“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

“Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.”

Will Rogers

The Will Rogers Book (1972)

“There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I don't even have to exaggerate.”

Will Rogers

As quoted in Saturday Review (25 August 1962)
Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom (1935)
Variant: People often ask me, 'Will, where do you get your jokes?' I just tell 'em, 'Well, I watch the government and report the facts, that is all I do, and I don't even find it necessary to exaggerate.
Variant: I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

“We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.”

Will Rogers

Inscribed on the Will Rogers Memorial Building in Claremore, Oklahoma.
Variants: We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 285
We are all here for a short spell; so get all the good laughs you can.
As quoted in Civilization's Quotations : Life's Ideal (2002) by Richard Alan Krieger, p. 69
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“I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.”

Will Rogers

Daily Telegram number 2159, Mr. Rogers Has An Idea How Conferences End (5 July 1933) <ref name=telegram4>
Daily telegrams

“I have no Politics. I am for the Party that is out of Power, no matter which one it is. But I will give you my word that, in case of my appointment, I will not be a Republican; I will do my best to pull with you, and not embarrass you. In fact, my views on European affairs are so in accord with you, Mr. President, that I might almost be suspected of being a Democrat.”

Will Rogers

Humorous letter to Republican US President Warren Harding, facetiously offering to replace the American ambassador to the Court of St. James in England.
The Illiterate Digest (1924)