J. K. Rowling Inspirational Quotations

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

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.

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.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.

Do not pity the dead, Harry.

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

The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

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

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

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.

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

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

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

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.