Top 500 J.K. Rowling Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Motivational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Failure Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Short Inspiring Quotes

2. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Motivational Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Failure Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Emotional Quotes

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

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Personal Development Quotes, Choices Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

4. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Enjoy Life Quotes, Wednesday Inspirational Quotes

5. “The only way out is through.”

— J.K. Rowling

6. “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Clever Quotes, Creative Quotes, Character Quotes

7. “Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right. -Albus Dumbledore.”

— J.K. Rowling

8. “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Identity Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Choices Quotes, Growth Quotes

9. “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.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Choices Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Character Quotes

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

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Courage Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Quotes About People

11. “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Personality Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Quotes About People, Character Quotes

12. “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Fiction Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Knowledge Quotes, Clever Quotes

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

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Attitude Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

14. “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Personality Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Impossible Quotes

15. “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Quotes About Strength, Harmony Quotes, Collaboration Quotes

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

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Creative Quotes, Character Quotes

17. “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

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Clever Quotes, Communication Quotes

18. “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

Featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Storytelling Quotes, Loss Quotes, Creative Quotes

19. “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes, Different Quotes, Moving Quotes

20. “Here lies Dobby, a free elf.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Short Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Famous Movie Quotes

21. “Wit beyond measure is a man’s greatest treasure.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Positive Short Quotes, Smart Quotes, Creative Quotes, Witty Quotes

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

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Sad Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life, Quotes About Feelings, Suffering Quotes

23. “I open at the close.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Storytelling Quotes

24. “Don’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Silly Quotes, Crazy Quotes

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

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students, Compassion Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Students, School Quotes

26. “There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”

— J.K. Rowling

27. “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.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Impact Quotes, Storytelling Quotes, Imagination Quotes

28. “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

Featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Storytelling Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Magic Quotes

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

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

30. “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”

— J.K. Rowling

31. “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Loss Quotes

33. “The stories we love best do live in us forever.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Storytelling Quotes

34. “I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Impact Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Happy Quotes, Stay Strong Quotes

37. “We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Empathy Quotes, Care Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Humanism Quotes, Quotes About Humanity

38. “She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn’t see it in themselves.”

— J.K. Rowling

39. “Constant vigilance!”

— J.K. Rowling

40. “Control your emotions! Discipline your mind!”

— J.K. Rowling

41. “You’re a wizard, Harry.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Famous Movie Quotes, Magic Quotes

42. “Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Cute Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Happy Quotes, Magic Quotes

43. “We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: School Quotes, Magic Quotes

44. “There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Storytelling Quotes

45. “Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Silly Quotes, Humor Quotes

46. “You don’t understand – there are things worth dying for!”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— J.K. Rowling

48. “Ask us no questions and we’ll tell you no lies.”

— J.K. Rowling

49. “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

Featured in: Missing Someone Quotes, Grief Quotes

50. “We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.”

— J.K. Rowling

Featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Stay Strong Quotes, Sorrow Quotes