Looking for the best and inspirational J.K. Rowling quotes?
J.K. Rowling (born 31 July 1965) is a prized and multi-awarded writer in literature. She is best known for creating the phenomenal Harry Potter series. Her books have captivated readers of all ages and are set to become classics in the field of literature.
To write her books, Rowling had to come up with many characters, names for those characters, places where they lived, and descriptions for those places, among other things.
In 2004, Forbes ranked her as the first female billionaire in the US. She is also the world’s wealthiest female author, with an estimated fortune of US$1 billion or more.
These are some of her inspirational quotes that will make you not give up! They’ll empower you with the strength you deserve to face any adversity.
59 Inspiring J.K. Rowling Quotes
“Achievable goals are the first step to self-improvement.”
“It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
“We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.”
“What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.”
“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.”
“You’ve got to work. It’s about structure. It’s about discipline. It’s all these deadly things that your schoolteacher told you you needed… You need it.””
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”
“Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive is vicissitudes.”
“You sort of start thinking anything is possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”
“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”
“The most important thing is to read as much as you can, life I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.”
“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”
“I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
“Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.”
“Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.”
“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
“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.”
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
“Sometimes, you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.”
“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.”
“You’ve got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot. That’s just part of the learning process. And read a lot. Reading a lot really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.”
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
“Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.”
“I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.”
“We can choose. Things go largely like you want them to go. You control your own life. Your own will is extremely powerful.”
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends”
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keep its brain.”
“Imagination is the foundation of all invention and innovation.”
“You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”
“Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best.”
“I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.”
“It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”
“The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.”
“If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love doing the most in the world and step two would be finding someone to pay you to do it.”
“Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.”
“I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.”
“Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is something on which to pride yourself. But poverty itself is romanticized by fools.”
“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
“The discipline involved in finishing a piece of creative work is something on which you can truly pride yourself.”
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
“The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.”
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”
“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.”
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
“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.”
“I don’t think there’s any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed.”
“People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
“You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.”
“Wit beyond measure is a man’s greatest treasure.”
“Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged.”
“Humans have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
“If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love doing most in the world and step two would be finding someone to pay you to do it.”
“I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people who are living in western society, people who are not repressed, who are free. We can choose. The things go largely like you want them to go. You control your own life. Your own will is extremely powerful.”
“Are you the sort of person who gloats when they see a woman fall, or the kind that celebrates a magnificent recovery?”
