Louis L'Amour Quotes
Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.
No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.
Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.
A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.
There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.
How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.
A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.
I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered- as a storyteller. A good storyteller.
Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.
A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.
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.
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.
Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.
I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.
To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.
Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.
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.
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.
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.
I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.
Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.
A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.
