Katharine Hepburn Quotes

This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.

Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess, but if you stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

I have always been strong. My mentality is just that way; that's why I've been around so long.

Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

Talent is long patience.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

I always, always got to be the last man standing.

You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me.

Endurance is the crowning quality.

Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.

Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved

Everything always gets crazy at the end. You just have to keep going, regardless of how awful it gets. So that's what I do.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

It's the courage to stay with something long enough to succeed at it.