“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, quote from Jubal Sackett
“Need and desire have no connection,' I said. 'Many people desire things they do not need. Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“For it is given that no man can do it all, that each must carry the future forward a few years and then pass the message on to him who follows.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“She did not believe me. "You do not worship the Sun."
"The sun gives life to all things. Without the sun this would be a dark, dead world. Perhaps," I added, "the spirit we worship is the same, and only the names are different. The message from He who rules over us all may come to each people in a different way.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“It is our custom that a Stinkard must always marry a Sun.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“Most of all we needed a fat bear, for of all things, fat is the hardest to come by in the wilderness.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“But the young men of all tribes were eager to take scalps and the prestige that followed.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“I will go with you, and when you make your camp, I will cook your meat, and when you wish to sleep, I will prepare your bed. Where you go, I will go.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“This is our bed. Keep it clean.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“A dead man they could leave, but a wounded man they must care for.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“There was never a place he walked that was not the better for his having passed. For every tree he cut down he planted two.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“He wastes no time yet is never hurried.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“He should have been drowned at birth.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“eat the meat of strange animals before I died.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“It is through wonder that we come to know.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“I wished I had a book. It had been so long since I had read. Could a man forget how to read?”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“Uninformed he might be, unintelligent he was not,”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“When I awakened I was cold, colder than I had ever been before.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“We accepted all people as they were and trusted nobody until they had proved themselves trustworthy.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“I am one who lives to learn.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“Fire, man’s first and faithful friend, and ever a potential enemy.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“The wounds had healed, but the scars would be mine forever.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“When there are no new ideas things can remain the same,”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“I know only that civilizations seem to be like people. They are born, they grow to maturity, then they age and lose their vitality and they die, only to be born again in later years.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“Many people desire things they do not need.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
“Each day is a day to live and in which to keep from dying, and a man’s energies are directed out from himself and his thoughts as well.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from Jubal Sackett
Louis L'Amour
Born place: in Jamestown, North Dakota, The United States
Born date March 22, 1908
See more on GoodReads
“as regards ownership the right of the first occupier is uncertain and badly founded. The right of conquest, on the other hand, rests on more solid foundations. It is the only right that receives respect since it is the only one that makes itself respected.”
― Anatole France, quote from Penguin Island
“I had never really thought of children as people, just as mysterious and needy creatures on their way to something greater.”
― Michelle Richmond, quote from The Year of Fog
“I just hope God doesn't get all the credit for bringing me home, because I sure hitchhiked a hell of a long ways and walked my frozen feet off to get here.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Dead to You
“Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, quote from The Wisdom of Life
“Seeking happiness outside ourselves is like waiting for sunlight in a cave facing north. —Tibetan saying”
― Timber Hawkeye, quote from Buddhist Boot Camp Manuscript
The Complete Stories...
Moby-Dick or, The Wh...
Winnie-the-Pooh
Interview with the V...
The Red Tent
The Secret Life of B...BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.
Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.
