Harry Potter Inspiring Quotes

• 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.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

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• We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Inspiration, Abortion

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• Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Life Changing, Mean

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2014

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• Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Good Night, Travel

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.52, Pottermore

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• As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wisdom, Money, Two

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Choices, Inspirational Tattoo, Potters

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Love, Death, Inspirational Harry Potter

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

  J. K. Rowling

  Beautiful, Truth, Literature

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• 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?

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Inspirational Harry Potter, Harry Potter Movie

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Lying, Greatness

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 16, 2005.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life Lesson, Pride

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• For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Ocean, Clouds

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• What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.

  J. K. Rowling

  Doe, Hagrid, Harry Potter Series

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• The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Responsibility, Wheels

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• Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Humble, Magic, Opinion

  "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2". www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength

  J. K. Rowling

  Pain, Potters, Facts

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• Do not pity the dead, Harry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death, Inspirational Harry Potter, Potters

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• Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love, Spiritual, Heart

  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ch. 37 (2000)

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• It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fear, Funeral, Darkness

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 16, 2005.

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• It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Inspiring, Death

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Depression

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• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ch. 12 (1997)

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

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