Louis L'Amour Quotes

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell.

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

The struggles I'm facing, The chances I'm taking, Sometimes might knock me down, But no, I'm not breaking.

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.

Those who have been made great have first suffered.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.

He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.

Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out standing strong.

There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Women often become these tough ones.

Strength and struggle travel together.

You can and you must expect suffering.

So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.