Louis L'Amour
Louis L'Amour
Louis Dearborn L'Amourwas 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 film. 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 workswere still in print, and he was considered "one of the world's most popular writers"...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 March 1908
CityJamestown, ND
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.
A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?
The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.
What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.
There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.
When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.
There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.
There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
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.
No man is lost while he yet lives.
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.
To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.
No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.
When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.