Kat Dennings Quotes

I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. I see people depressed and I see people who devalue themselves and I feel that's a terrible, terrible waste. But I love the people who try. But try fairly, try honestly.

I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I'm sorry, I'm still on the last caller.

We all, we all good people just trying to escape the negative influence that come around us and that's the story of my life, you know? Trying my best to get around the ills and I bumped my head a few times but I think, you know, music is my savior for right now, for me and my whole group.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

My songs are always about overcoming things, whether it's breaking up with a guy or just trying to be happy. They're always about being better.

The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, ‘I can do this.’ It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently.

Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.

Repeat after me: 'I am doing the best that I can.' That's the mantra I keep trying to tell myself, 'I'm doing the best I can.'

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.

I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.

Nothing's hopeless except never trying.

As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.

Keep grindin' boy, your life can change in one year, And even when it's dark out, the sun is shining somewhere

Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback—it is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you.

Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn't mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.

The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

Keeping a journal implies hope.

Thou didst thy best, that is success.

We’re all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I’ve had to work harder than most.