110+ Louis L'Amour Quotes On Death, Horses And Adventure

Louis L'Amour was an American author of western, historical fiction, and non-fiction books. He wrote over 100 novels, many of which have been adapted into feature films and television productions. He was one of the world's most popular writers, with more than 325 million copies of his books sold worldwide. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Louis L'Amour on death, love, horses.

Top 10 Louis L'Amour Quotes

1. You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.
2. There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
3. Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
4. The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.
5. Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.
6. The saddle is a place for dreaming when there's hours of trail ahead.
7. There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.
8. Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
9. Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
10. Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

Louis L'Amour Image Quotes

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it. — Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour Short Quotes

• Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.
• Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.
• I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.
• A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
• A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.
• A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.
• No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
• A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.
• The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
• If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.

Louis L'Amour Quotes About Love

Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years. — Louis L'Amour

The Apache don't 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. That's all they say. — Louis L'Amour

When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you. — Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour Quotes About Adventure

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place. — Louis L'Amour

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble. — Louis L'Amour

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home. — Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour Quotes About Write

If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow. — Louis L'Amour

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on — Louis L'Amour

If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier. — Louis L'Amour

You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow. — Louis L'Amour

I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the man who was ranching, the man who was mining, the man who was opening up the country. — Louis L'Amour

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture. — Louis L'Amour

I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition. — Louis L'Amour

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, 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! — Louis L'Amour

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant. — Louis L'Amour

If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If it's west of the Mississippi, it's a western, a different category. There's no sense to it. — Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour Quotes About Read

I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. — Louis L'Amour

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long. — Louis L'Amour

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves. — Louis L'Amour

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived. — Louis L'Amour

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. — Louis L'Amour

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing. — Louis L'Amour

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. — Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour Quotes About Simply

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain. — Louis L'Amour

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. — Louis L'Amour

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

Louis L'Amour Quotes About Life

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. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape. — Louis L'Amour

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings. — Louis L'Amour

Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something. — Louis L'Amour

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life. — Louis L'Amour

The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail. — Louis L'Amour

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. — Louis L'Amour

Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness. — Louis L'Amour

No man is lost while he yet lives. — Louis L'Amour

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination. — Louis L'Amour

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them? — Louis L'Amour

Louis L'Amour Famous Quotes And Sayings

Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it. — Louis L'Amour

One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become. — Louis L'Amour

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more. — Louis L'Amour

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious. — Louis L'Amour

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label. — Louis L'Amour

Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing. — Louis L'Amour

The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something to eat or perhaps an item of clothing to keep them from the cold. Thieves are usually those who have something and want more. — Louis L'Amour

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

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

It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it. — Louis L'Amour

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence. — Louis L'Amour

Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache and listening with attention to that headier draught, the wine of the intellect, that sweet and bitter juice distilled from the vine of thought and the tree of man's experience. — Louis L'Amour

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble. — Louis L'Amour

Have faith in God but keep your powder dry. — Louis L'Amour

The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman? — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

I fear there will be no future for those who do not change. — Louis L'Amour

When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is. — Louis L'Amour

I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered- as a storyteller. A good storyteller. — Louis L'Amour

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again. — Louis L'Amour

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 wasteland to the spirit. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition. — Louis L'Amour

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could. — Louis L'Amour

When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove. — 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

He who plants a tree is a servant of God. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives. — Louis L'Amour

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. — Louis L'Amour

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first. — Louis L'Amour

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever. — Louis L'Amour

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

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. — Louis L'Amour

To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking. — Louis L'Amour

Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little. — Louis L'Amour

Knowledge was meant to be shared. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns. — Louis L'Amour

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men? — Louis L'Amour

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen. — Louis L'Amour

My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer. — Louis L'Amour

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places. — Louis L'Amour

I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the Indians. — Louis L'Amour

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices. — Louis L'Amour

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I. — Louis L'Amour

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone. — Louis L'Amour

A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do — Louis L'Amour

Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

Hate would destroy him who hated. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters. — Louis L'Amour

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father. — Louis L'Amour

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. — Louis L'Amour

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time. — Louis L'Amour

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance. — Louis L'Amour

Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow. — Louis L'Amour

Life Lessons by Louis L'Amour

1. Louis L'Amour teaches us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how difficult the journey may be. He reminds us that perseverance and hard work can lead to success, and that courage and determination can help us overcome any obstacle.
2. He also encourages us to be kind and generous to others, and to never forget the importance of friendship and loyalty.
3. Finally, Louis L'Amour reminds us that no matter how bad things may seem, there is always hope and a chance to make things better.