Ernest Hemingway Luck Quotations

I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

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.