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

—  Ernest Hemingway

Speaking to his son Gregory, as quoted in Papa, a Personal Memoir (1976) Gregory H. Hemingway

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice." by Ernest Hemingway?
Ernest Hemingway photo
Ernest Hemingway 501
American author and journalist 1899–1961

Related quotes

Sam Harris photo

“You are either lucky in this department or you aren't—and you cannot make your own luck.”

Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist

Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 38

Ted Nugent photo

“Practice, practice, practice. Practice until you get a guitar welt on your chest…if it makes you feel good, don't stop until you see the blood from your fingers. Then you'll know you're on to something!”

Ted Nugent (1948) American rock musician

[Denyer, Ralph, The Guitar Handbook, 2002, 66, 0-679-74275-1]

John le Carré photo

“Luck's just another word for destiny…either you make your own or you're screwed.”

John le Carré book The Mission Song

The Mission Song (2006)

Phil Brooks photo

“Luck? Good luck? GM, the last time I checked, luck is for losers.”

Phil Brooks (1978) American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist

Extreme Championship Wrestling. September 4, 2007.
To Armando Estrada when he wished CM Punk good luck in his "Last Chance" match with John Morrison.
Extreme Championship Wrestling

Cormac McCarthy photo

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)

Lou Holtz photo

“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer
Gordon R. Dickson photo

““Good luck to you, too, sir.”
“I make it a point not to know the lady,” said Cletus. “I can’t afford to count on her.””

Gordon R. Dickson book Tactics of Mistake

Source: Tactics of Mistake (1971), Chapter 24 (p. 349)

Lois McMaster Bujold photo

“We make our own luck. And it’s my responsibility to see it’s good and not bad.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 11 (p. 194)

Muhammad al-Taqi photo

“Do not make an enemy of anyone until you know what there is between him and God! If he is good, God will not leave him to you and if he is bad, then your knowing of his badness will make you safe from him and so you do not need to make him your enemy.”

Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) ninth of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'ism

[Baqir Sharīf al-Qurashi, The life of Imam Muhammad al-Jawad, Wonderful Maxims and Arts, 2005]

Jessamyn Stanley photo

“I didn’t realize that in truth what makes you a good teacher is really living your own practice, and living it so much that you request it to other people. Ultimately, everything you do that you teach someone else is something that you’re working through to teach yourself, and that practice of really digging within yourself, it feels like having your soul cracked open.”

Jessamyn Stanley (1987) American yoga teacher and author

Source: Jessamyn Stanley is fighting for radical visibility and yoga for every body, Samantha Grasso, Aug 28, 2018, 2018 https://www.dailydot.com/irl/jessamyn-stanley/,

Related topics