We introduce a new PDE approach to establishing the large time asymptotic behavior of solutions of Hamilton–Jacobi equations, which modifies and simplifies the previous ones (Barles et al. in Arch Ration Mech Anal 204(2):515–558, 2012; Barles and Souganidis in SIAM J Math Anal 31(4):925–939, 2000), under a refined “strict convexity” assumption on the Hamiltonians. Not only such “strict convexity” conditions generalize the corresponding requirements on the Hamiltonians in Barles and Souganidis (SIAM J Math Anal 31(4):925–939, 2000), but also one of the most refined our conditions covers the situation studied in Namah and Roquejoffre (Commun Partial Differ Equ 24(5–6):883–893, 1999).