Katharine Butler Hathaway Quotes

United States, Author
1890 – 1942.

Katharine Butler Hathaway, writer, was born in 1890 in Baltimore, Maryland. She spent her childhood in Salem, Massachusetts where she suffered tuberculosis of the spine and had to lie flat on her back for ten years. Her education consisted of one year at Abbot Academy, Andover and another year at Miss McClintock's School, Boston.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
- Family
- Change
- Places
If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
- Time
- You
- Realize

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

Katharine Butler Hathaway
- Life
- Fear
- Safe
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
- Fear
- Decision
- Creative
The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Katharine Butler Hathaway
- Life
- Lead
- Instinct