Louis LAmour Quotes (33 Quotes)

One day I was speeding along at the typwriter, and my daughter who was a child at the time asked me, 'Daddy, why are you writing so fast' And I replied, 'Because I want to see how the story turns out'

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

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

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

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 childs coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

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

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

Neither drink (coffee or tea) was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my mustache and listening with attention to that headier draught, the wine of the intellect, that sweet and bitter j.

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

What is second sight A gift A training Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing i

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

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

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

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody would do it for him your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them down and hog-time them.

A good beginning makes a good end.

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

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.

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

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

Do you wish to learn There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

This -- this was what made life a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

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.

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

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.

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity and movement and changes in the world about him then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds.

It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. 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 all periods of time.

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

Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wastelands to the spirit.