Katharine Hepburn Quotes

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough.

Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.

Of course, there are days when you're not feeling your best and you still have to stand up there and it can be difficult. But those days pass and you move on.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.

We all survive more than we think we can.

We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

What's really hard is when you're having those more difficult days, you've got to be able to dig down deep and be able to go out there and do what it takes to be the best you can be, even on the hardest days.

When you live life like The Nature Boy, there are some monumental highs and, sadly, some unbelievable lows. No matter what happens in his life, he always comes back bigger and better than any of us can even imagine.

I won't let anything destroy me.

And when things get tough, trust there is a bigger plan and that you will be stronger for it.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

If you can survive disappointment, nothing can beat you

Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.

You will not stop. The pain is necessary, especially the pain of hunger. It reassures you that you are strong, can withstand anything, that you are not a slave to your body, you don't have to give in to its whining.

You have to stay strong when it gets tough.

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.