Quotes by Louis L'Amour

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

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

The one law that does not change is that everything changes and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

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.

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

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

Hate would destroy him who hated.

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.

Revenge could steal a mans life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

A man can lose sight of everything else when hes bent on revenge and it aint worth it.

Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much.

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

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me and nothing before me but hope.

He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.

There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that theres no stopping a man who knows hes in the right and keeps a-coming.

One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me but I always got up.

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

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.

My future is one I must make myself.