Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour

"Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow."
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"Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow."
Louis L'Amour
"I have been nothing ... but there is tomorrow."
Louis L'Amour
"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-tie them."
Louis L'Amour
"I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen."
Louis L'Amour
"Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment heredity and movements 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. ... Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow."
Louis L'Amour
"My future is one I must make myself."
Louis L'Amour
"I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody."
Louis L'Amour
"There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man."
Louis L'Amour
"Being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him."
Louis L'Amour
"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."
Louis L'Amour
"There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming."
Louis L'Amour
"He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was."
Louis L'Amour
"We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action."
Louis L'Amour
"The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me and nothing before me but hope."
Louis L'Amour
"He might never really do what he said but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go."
Louis L'Amour
"Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much."
Louis L'Amour
"A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge and it ain't worth it."
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"Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness."
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"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
"Hate would destroy him who hated."
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