Katharine Hepburn Quotes

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• Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Kindness, Lying, Hands

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• You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Smart, People, Interesting

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  If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Katharine Hepburn (1987). “The making of The African Queen, or, How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and almost lost my mind”, Alfred A. Knopf

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  As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Moving, Mean, Beautiful Life

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  Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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  Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Attitude, Thinking, Giving

  Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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  I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Interesting, Feelings, Age

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• If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can’t change the music of your soul.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Soul, Can't Change, Your Soul

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• Never complain. Never explain.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Positivity, Complaining, Complaints

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• I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Motivational, Believe, Today

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• It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Inspirational, Persistence

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• I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

  Katharine Hepburn

  Independent, Men, Support

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• If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Inspiring, Hands, Needs

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• You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Voters, Politician

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• Without discipline, there's no life at all.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Life, Discipline, Inspirational Kindness

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Laughter, Attitude, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't moan, don't whine, don't blame. Just get on with it.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Complaining, Blame

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• Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Suffering, Lucky, Enough

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself... but I'm entirely content. I can sit back in my old age and not regret a single moment, not wish to change a single thing. It's what I wish for you...a life with no regrets.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Regret, Single Mom, Wish

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• Listen to the song of life.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Song

  "Katharine Hepburn: All About Me". Documentary, www.imdb.com. January 18, 1993.

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• If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Money, Sex, Choices

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• The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Men, Today, Complaining

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• I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth

  Katharine Hepburn

  Long, Care, I Don't Care

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