Inspirational Quotations by Ernest Hemingway
- But man is not made for defeat.
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
- I like to listen. I have learned a great deal
from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
- Life breaks us all, but afterwards,
many of us are strongest at the broken places.
- Never mistake motion for action.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.