J. K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling, CH, OBE, HonFRSE, FRCPE, FRSL, is a British novelist, best known for writing the Harry Potter series as J
12 quotes.
Quotes by J. K. Rowling
- Failure is so important. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success.
- Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
- 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.
- It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.
- Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I built my life.
- The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.
- 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, the responsibility lies with you.
- 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.
- We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.
- You will fail. It’s inevitable. It’s what you do with it.
- You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.