01c. 1948 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
02c. 1948 ADAny 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 / quote ↗
04c. 1948 ADA 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 / quote ↗
06c. 1948 ADAnger 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 / quote ↗
07c. 1948 ADRevenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
08c. 1948 ADA man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge and it ain't worth it.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
10c. 1948 ADHe might never really do what he said but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
11c. 1948 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
13c. 1948 ADThere 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 / quote ↗
14c. 1948 ADOne 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 / quote ↗
15c. 1948 ADBeing scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
16c. 1948 ADThere 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 / quote ↗
17c. 1948 ADI am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
19c. 1948 ADUp 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 / quote ↗
20c. 1948 ADI 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 / quote ↗
21c. 1948 ADPa 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 / quote ↗
23c. 1948 ADEveryone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
24c. 1948 ADFor you and me today is all we have tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
