Quotes by Louis L'Amour

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

— Louis L'Amour

Life

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

— Louis L'Amour

Success

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

— Louis L'Amour

Education

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

— Louis L'Amour

Wisdom

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

— Louis L'Amour

Wisdom

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

— Louis L'Amour

Wisdom

A good beginning makes a good end.

— Louis L'Amour

Wisdom

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

— Louis L'Amour

Wisdom

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

— Louis L'Amour

Wisdom

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

— Louis L'Amour

Wisdom

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

— Louis L'Amour

Wisdom

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

— Louis L'Amour

Life

If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If it's west of the Mississippi, it's a western, a different category. There's no sense to it.

— Louis L'Amour

Wisdom

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

— Louis L'Amour

Wisdom

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

— Louis L'Amour

Wisdom

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

— Louis L'Amour

Success

He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

— Louis L'Amour

Wisdom

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

— Louis L'Amour

Education

I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the man who was ranching, the man who was mining, the man who was opening up the country.

— Louis L'Amour

Wisdom

I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition.

— Louis L'Amour

Wisdom

I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the Indians.

— Louis L'Amour

Wisdom

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.

— Louis L'Amour

Wisdom