Louis L'Amour Quotes

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

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

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

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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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A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

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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.

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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.

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No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.

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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.

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Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.'

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To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

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The saddle is a place for dreaming when there's hours of trail ahead....

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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.

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

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A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.

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A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

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What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.

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Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

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Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

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Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

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Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.

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

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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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After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

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