Inspirational Quotations by Ernest Hemingway

  • But man is not made for defeat.
    A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
    From Issue 9
  • I like to listen. I have learned a great deal
    from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
    From Issue 180
  • Life breaks us all, but afterwards,
    many of us are strongest at the broken places.
    From Issue 231
  • Never mistake motion for action.
    From Issue 271
  • Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
    From Issue 384
  • There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
    From Issue 390
  • Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
    From Issue 411

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