Louis L'Amour Quotes

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• Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.

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  Life, Lying, Fate

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• There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

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  Inspirational, Change, Time

  "Lonely on the Mountain".

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• When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

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  Regret, Father, Men

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “Last of the Breed”, p.284, Bantam

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• The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

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  Missing, Slow Down, Ends

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Ride the Dark Trail”, p.53, Bantam

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• Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.

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  Somewhere Else, People, Important

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.862, Bantam

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• There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

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  Men, Voice, Good Man

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• The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

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  Graduation, Inspiration, Forever

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• We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

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  Thinking, People, Different

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.76, Bantam

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• Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

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  Inspirational, Time, Winning

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• Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

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  Teacher, Children, Book

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• There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.

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  War, Character, Hard Times

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• There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

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  Doe, Shotguns, Dangerous

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• Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

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  Long Ago, Wish, Done

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Hanging Woman Creek”, p.77, Bantam

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• The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail.

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  Morning, Horse, Jobs

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Proving Trail”, p.167, Bantam

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• You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

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  Water, Gone, Sticks

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Daybreakers”, p.28, Bantam

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• A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

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  Book, Thinking, Make You Think

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.101, Bantam

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• If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

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  Writing, Ideas, Water

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• Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.

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  Feet, Evil, Submission

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Haunted Mesa”, p.258, Bantam

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• You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too.

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  Teacher, Advice, Answers

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.202, Bantam

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• Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

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  Forever, Live In The Moment, Mindfulness

  Louis L'Amour (2017). “Bendigo Shafter (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures): A Novel”, p.330, Bantam

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• A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

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  Mistake, Past, Men

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.28, Bantam

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• Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.

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  Men, Thinking, Climbing

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Lonely Men”, p.155, Bantam

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• Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

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  Lonely, Writing, Adventure

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• When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

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  Lonely, Men, Kind

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.490, Bantam

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• Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

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  Block, Book, Men

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