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47 quotes
American novelist and short story writer (1908–1988)
“I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.”
"I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody."
on Self Awareness
"A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it."
on Nature
"Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there is much truth in that."
on Culture
"You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it."
on Philosophy
"I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast."
on Law
"To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder."
on Faith
"A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything."
on Fear
"Anger 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."
on Wisdom
"A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge and it ain't worth it."
on Emotion
"There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man."
on Character
"Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness."
"My future is one I must make myself."
on Inspirational
"Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow."
"I fear there will be no future for those who do not change."
"Few of us ever live in the present we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone."
on Mindfulness
"A wise man fights to win but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat."
"To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain."
on Truth
"Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value."
"A good beginning makes a good end."
on Success
"A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination."
on Ambition
