Flint Quotes

“difference between a child and an adult is not years, rather it’s a willingness to accept responsibility, to be responsible for one’s own actions.”
― Louis L'Amour, Flint

“Life, he decided, was never a question of accumulating material things, nor in the struggle for reputation, but in the widening and deepening of perception, increasing the sensitivity of the faculties, of an awareness of the world in which one lives.”
― Louis L'Amour, Flint

“Never let them know how you feel or what you are thinking. If they know how you feel they know how to hurt you, and if they hurt you once, they will try again.”
― Louis L'Amour, Flint

“If a man starts to run, there is nothing to do but keep running. And if a man must die, he could at least die proud of his manhood. It was better to live one day as a lion, than a dozen years as a sheep.”
― Louis L'Amour, Flint

“Never tackle a man who doesn’t care whether he lives or not. He will always have an edge on you.”
― Louis l'Amour, Flint

“Every youngster wants to be grown-up,” her father had said, “but the difference between a child and an adult is not years, rather it’s a willingness to accept responsibility, to be responsible for one’s own actions.”
― Louis L'Amour, Flint

“He stood there, watching it chuckling over the stones. The gnawing in his stomach was always there now. There was but little time left. Yet already some of the quietness of this place was seeping into him. The tension was going out of him, his muscles were mysteriously relaxing. It was long after the stars came out before he slept, and then for a time he was dreamless, but he awakened, and sat up in the chill night and lighted his pipe. He walked to the door, and the air felt strangely damp, the stars very clear. He listened into the night, but heard no sound.”
― Louis L'Amour, Flint

“Luckily, one of my teachers got me started on Plutarch and Montaigne.”
― Louis L'Amour, Flint

“any man who could concentrate for as much as three minutes on any given problem could rule the world.”
― Louis L'Amour, Flint

“It was better to live one day as a lion, than a dozen years as a sheep.”
― Louis L'Amour, Flint