Ernest Hemingway quotes for UPSC

All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

It would be easy for us, if we do not learn to understand the world and appreciate the rights, privileges and duties of al other countries and peoples, to represent in our power the same danger to the world that Fascism did.

An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

Never confuse movement with action.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.

Every day above earth is a good day.

The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.