It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.
Never mistake motion for action.
- Topic: Action
- Location: Hana, Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Ernest Hemingway
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place the come down and shoot the survivors.
You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.
If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!
It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
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More on Action
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.
I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.
You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.
