Quotes by Louis L'Amour

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

“A good beginning makes a good end.”

“Expect victory and you make victory.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first.”

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

“Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter of him”

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

“Up to a point a mans 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.”

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

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

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.

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, He was a man who didnt believe in violence, Hes a good man... and dead.

The desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed to correct the papers.

The Apache dont 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. Thats all they say.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

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