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

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  Men, Voice, Good Man

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.

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  Love Is, Years, Pieces

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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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• There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.

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  Men, Doubt, Doe

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Ride the Dark Trail”, p.70, Bantam

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• Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

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  Travel, Adventure, Journey

  Louis L'Amour (2015). “The Rider of Lost Creek: The Classic Novel of Range War”, p.4, Renaissance EBooks

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• ... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

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  Reading, Thinking

  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.422, Bantam

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• Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

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  Today, Tomorrow, Chakra

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.290, Bantam

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• The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

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  Inspirational, Memories, Adversity

  Louis L'Amour (2009). “The Sky-Liners and Galloway (2-Book Bundle)”, p.212, 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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• To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

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  Men, Able, Ends

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Man from the Broken Hills”, p.25, Bantam

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• The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

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  Gun, Men, Thieves

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “North to the Rails: A Novel”, p.16, Bantam

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