Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
J. K. ROWLINGAchievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
J. K. ROWLINGDestiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
J. K. ROWLINGWhen people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
J. K. ROWLINGLet us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
J. K. ROWLINGWhat’s the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.
J. K. ROWLINGSecretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
J. K. ROWLINGFailure 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.
J. K. ROWLINGThe consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
J. K. ROWLINGYou can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.
J. K. ROWLINGClimbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
J. K. ROWLINGIt matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
J. K. ROWLINGDepression is the absence of hope.
J. K. ROWLINGI will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
J. K. ROWLINGIf you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J. K. ROWLINGIt takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J. K. ROWLINGThere 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.
J. K. ROWLING