Katharine Butler Hathaway Quotes

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

There comes a time or a moment when you know in which direction you're going to go. I know it happened to me when I was quite young.

That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.

I meet so many young people who want to plan out their lives and want a recipe. They want me to tell them how to succeed. I didn't follow a recipe. I followed my instincts.

I believe leaving school early was the right decision to make, but at first, I wasn't sure. But my coaches told me to follow my heart and there wouldn't be any regrets, and that's exactly what I did.

It is very different hosting and judging a show like 'Love School'; it was unlike acting in a movie or series or being part of a reality show. But I keep telling myself that I have just one life, and I have to make the most of it.

You get one life. Live it in a way that it inspires someone.

Everything changes when you make a decision to be one of the courageous ones, someone who chooses to make a life, rather than a living.

Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.

There are no choices that are really a detour that will take you far from where you're wanting to be - because your Inner Being is always guiding you to the next, and the next, and the next. So don't be concerned that you may make a fatal choice, because there aren't any of those. You are always finding your balance. It's a never ending process.

Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I’m glad I did'?

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

Follow your compass, not your clock.

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

There is perfection in the process-and all life arises out of choice.

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.