J K Rowling Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

Hope springs forever. — J.K. Rowling

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. — J.K. Rowling

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. — J.K. Rowling

All we do is read the stupid textbook," said Ron. — J.K. Rowling

That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices! — J.K. Rowling

You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God. — J.K. Rowling

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid. — J.K. Rowling

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people's lives simply by existing. — J.K. Rowling

In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance. — Robert Galbraith

True coolness is the incidental by-product of higher pursuits. — J.K. Rowling

Always say the proper name for everything-
Fear of the name increase fear of the thing itself. — J.K. Rowling

Bill was - there was no other word for it - cool. He was tall, with long hair that he had tied back in a ponytail. He was wearing an earring with what looked like a fang dangling from it. Bill's clothes would not have looked out of place at a rock concert, except that Harry recognized his boots to be made, not of leather, but of dragon hide. — J.K. Rowling

Don' you worry, Harry. You'll learn fast enough. Everyone starts at the beginning at Hogwarts, you'll be just fine. Just be yerself. I know it's hard. Yeh've been singled out, an' that's always hard. But yeh'll have a great time at Hogwarts - I did - still do, 'smatter of fact. — J.K. Rowling

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. — J.K. Rowling

So given a Time-Turner, I'd tell my 21 self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or archievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life. — J.K. Rowling

It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good. — J.K. Rowling

You're saying it wrong! It's LEVIOSA not LEVIOSAAA — J.K. Rowling

I am what I am, an' I'm not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,' my ol' dad used ter say, 'there's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botherin' with. — J.K. Rowling

Newt Scamander : "My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice. — J.K. Rowling

Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort's world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemort's followers!"
"Of course I haven't!" said Harry indignantly. "He killed my mum and dad!"
"You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!" said Dumbledore loudly. — J.K. Rowling

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

She seemed to see a flash of bright sunlight on dark green water, fragmented into brilliant shards by the splashing rise and fall of oars. — J.K. Rowling

Actually, I'm highly logical, which allows me to look past extraneous detail and perceive clearly that which others overlook. — J.K. Rowling

Anything's possible if you just have the nerve. — J.K. Rowling

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. — J.K. Rowling

What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty. — J.K. Rowling

Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him! — J.K. Rowling

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was. — J.K. Rowling

Live every day to your best and never worry about tomorrow. — J.K. Rowling

Do not pity the dead, Harry. — J.K. Rowling

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. — J.K. Rowling

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else. — J.K. Rowling

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. — J.K. Rowling

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. — J.K. Rowling

Don't count your owls before they are delivered. — J.K. Rowling

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

Much as he detested Filch, Harry couldn't help feeling a bit sorry for him, though not nearly as sorry as he felt for himself. — J.K. Rowling

I have noticed more than once in life that a taste for the ineffably twee can go hand-in-hand with a distinctly uncharitable outlook on the world, I once shared an office with a woman who had covered the wall space behind her desk with pictures of fluffy kitties; she was the most bigoted, spiteful champion of the death penalty with whom it has ever been my misfortune to share a kettle.
A love of all things saccharine often seems present where there is a lack of real warmth or charity. — J.K. Rowling

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them. — J.K. Rowling

The dementors affect you worse than the others because there are horrors in your past that others don't have. — J.K. Rowling

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. — J.K. Rowling

What would come, would come ... and you would have to meet it, when it did. — J.K. Rowling

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

It doesn't matter what a person is born but it matters how he grows up to be... — J.K. Rowling

Don't try to be the next J.K. Rowling. Just try to be the first you. — Christina Daley

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. — J.K. Rowling

You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have nit lived at all, in which case, you fail be default. — J.K. Rowling

Control your emotions! Discipline your mind! — J.K. Rowling

I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had become mentally ill after all he had endured in his homeland. He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon him. He was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a child. I was given the job of escorting him back to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished me future happiness. — J.K. Rowling

Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

- Albus Dumbledore, "Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban" - — J.K. Rowling

Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finished! Think now, for once, if you have never heard of the prophecy! What would you do? — J.K. Rowling

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg. — J.K. Rowling