Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was a master of storytelling, known for The Old Man and the Sea and his bold, adventurous life. His words on resilience, courage, and perseverance continue to inspire. Whether you need motivation or a new perspective, his quotes offer timeless wisdom to navigate life’s challenges.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.
Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bells Toll
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway - Across the River and into the Trees
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Every man's life ends the same way.
Ernest Hemingway
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest Hemingway - The Wild Years
You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
Ernest Hemingway- The Sun Also Rises
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
Ernest Hemingway- A Moveable Feast
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest Hemingway
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Ernest Hemingway- Men Without Women
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Hemingway
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
Ernest Hemingway
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
Ernest Hemingway
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway
The shortest answer is doing the thing.
Ernest Hemingway
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway
