Ernest Hemingway Quotes About Luck

Quotes about: Luck

• Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

  Ernest Hemingway

  New Day, Luck, Old Man

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7211, Simon and Schuster

• All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Political, Luck

  "Old Newsman Writes: A Letter from Cuba". Esquire, December 1934.

• You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Practice, Luck, Gigs

  "Papa, a Personal Memoir". Book by Gregory H. Hemingway, 1976.

• For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Good Luck, Long

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life Lesson, Luck, Hell

  "Old Man and the Sea".

• Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Luck, Form

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.35, Hamilton Books

• He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Luck, Coward, Tolls

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2877, Simon and Schuster

• For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Writing, New Beginnings

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

• I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Athlete, Choices, Soul

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.176, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Horse, Long Ago, Feet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

• [Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

  Ernest Hemingway

  Good Friend, Brave, Luck

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