Top 1404 Quotes & Sayings by J. K. Rowling - Page 3

there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.

Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

Don't let the muggles get you down.

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.

It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

What's the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others.

It's our choices, more than anything, that show who we really are.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

The stories we love best do live in us forever.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

The ones that love us never really leave us.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

There will always be a easy path and a right path.

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.