Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Louis L’Amour (American Novelist)

Louis Dearborn L’Amour was an American novelist and short-story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels; however, he also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, non-fiction, as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films. L’Amour’s books remain popular and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death almost all of his 105 existing works were still in print, and he was “one of the world’s most popular writers”.

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He never knew when. he was whipped … so he never was.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Endurance, Resolve, Perseverance

Hate would destroy him who hated.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Hatred, Forgiveness

Up to a point a man’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and the movements and changes in the world around 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 will be tomorrow.’ The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Tomorrow, Self-reliance, Attitude, Self-Discovery, The Future, Confidence

She had believed the land was her enemy, and she struggled against it, but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the sea. One had to learn to live with it, to belong to it, to fit into its seasons and its ways.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Men, Acceptance

For you and me, today is all we have; tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: The Future, Tomorrow

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Belief, Faith

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
Topics: Motivation

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.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Difficulty, Change

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
Topics: Acceptance, Bad Times

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Acceptance

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
Topics: Endurance, Resolve, Perseverance

I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Realization, Acceptance, Awareness

Man needs so little… yet he begins wanting so much.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Gratitude, Appreciation, Blessings

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
Topics: Opportunity

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Nature

Revenge could steal a man’s life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Forgiveness, Revenge

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Difficulties, Adversity

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Action

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.
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
Topics: Reading

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Books

When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to believe the earth could give me wisdom, but it did not. Yet I learned a little about animals and learned it is not always brave to make a stand. It is often foolish. There is a time for courage and a time for flight.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Bravery

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Worry, Defeat, Accepting The Worst

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he’s never been any place or done anything.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Fear

A man can lose sight of everything else when he’s bent on revenge, and it ain’t worth it.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Forgiveness, Revenge

Hate clouds the mind. It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.
Louis L’Amour

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Character

Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.
Louis L’Amour
Topics: Adversity, Difficulties

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble.
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
Topics: Voting

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