21 motivating quotes from J.K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling wrote the first book in the Harry Potter series when her life seemed to be going downhill. She survived the death of her beloved mother, and her marriage had just fallen apart. Joanne lost her job and lived with her child on welfare. According to her, Text of J. K. Rowling's speech, she was "as poor as possible in modern Britain without being homeless." Rowling felt like a complete failure in all walks of life and even thought about suicide.

And yet she continued to write. Joan took her daughter, went to the nearest cafe in the vicinity of Edinburgh and for a while plunged into the magical world of Hogwarts.

After 5 years, the novel "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was completed. But 12 publishers refused Rowling's Mugglemarch one by one, and the book remained unpublished for another two years. Only in 1997 did a small edition finally hit the shelves of bookstores.

Over the next 5 years, the writer turned from unemployed to a multimillionaire.

To date, fairy tales have brought You’re a Wizard at Making Money, Harry Rowling, over $ 25 billion in revenue - from books, movies, toys and more.

J. K. Rowling's advice on success, failure and everything in between is definitely worth heeding.

About failures

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“At a young age, my biggest fear was not poverty, but failure.”

From in front of Harvard University alumni.

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“You will never know yourself or the strength of your relationship until you overcome life's adversities. This knowledge can be painful, but it costs more than any other experience."

From a speech to graduates of Harvard University.

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“Failure gave me an inner security that I never felt when taking exams. Failure taught me things that I wouldn’t have known otherwise. I have found that I have a stronger will and more discipline than I suspected. I also learned that I have friends whose value is higher than the price of rubies."

From a speech to graduates of Harvard University.

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“You may never experience bad luck on the same scale as I once did, but some setbacks in life are inevitable. You cannot live without failure, unless you live so carefully that you don’t live at all - in which case you fail by default.”

From a speech to graduates of Harvard University.

About sources of strength and motivation

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“I had nothing to lose. Sometimes it gives you enough courage to try."

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“So why am I talking about the benefits of failure or failure? Simply because the failure helped me to drop the nonessential. I began to devote all my energy to completing the work that was most important to me. If I had succeeded in something else, I would not have dared to try to achieve something in my life's work. I felt free because my main fears had already come true, but I was still alive, I had a daughter whom I adored, I had an old typewriter and a big idea. The stone bottom has become a solid foundation on which I have rebuilt my whole life."

From a speech to graduates of Harvard University.

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“Never wait until you reach perfection, otherwise you will wait forever. Do the best you can with what you have. And be one of those who dare, and not one who only dreamed."

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Overcoming obstacles

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“Poverty brings with it fear and stress, and sometimes depression; it means thousands of petty humiliations and deprivations. Getting out of poverty by your own efforts is really something to be proud of. But poverty itself is romanticized only by fools."

From a speech to graduates of Harvard University.

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“Don't let their laughter quench your ambitions. Turn it into fuel!"

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“It takes a lot of courage to face your enemies. But even more courage is needed to resist friends."

From the novel "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".

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“There is a shelf life of grudges against your parents for misguiding you in life. It expires the moment you are old enough to drive yourself. From this day on, the responsibility lies with you."

From a speech to graduates of Harvard University.

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“Life is difficult and complex and is beyond our complete control. The humility inherent in this knowledge helps to survive the vicissitudes of fate."

From a speech to graduates of Harvard University.

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"Anything is possible if you have the courage!"

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On the path to success

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"Achievable goals are the first step to self-improvement."

From a speech to graduates of Harvard University.

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"When I stopped pretending that I was not me, I began to direct all my energy towards the realization of a goal that was really important to me."

From a speech to graduates of Harvard University.

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“If we change internally, our reality will also change. This is an amazing rule, and yet it is confirmed a thousand times every day of our lives."

From a speech to graduates of Harvard University.

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“The discipline it takes to complete creative work is something you can truly be proud of. You transform from one who “thinks”, “can”, “tries”, into one who DOES. At this point, you realize that if you did it once, you can do it again. This is extremely inspiring. So never quit for fear of rejection. Perhaps your third, fourth, fiftieth song / novel / picture will "shoot" and deserve applause. But it would not have been if you had not finished all the previous ones (those that will now become more interesting to your audience)."

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"It is not who you were born that matters, but what you have become."

From the novel "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".

About imagination and creativity

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"We do not need magic to change the world, we already carry all the necessary power: we have the power of imagination."

From a speech to graduates of Harvard University.

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“Imagination is not only a person's unique ability to foresee what does not exist, and, therefore, the source of all inventions and innovations. Perhaps the most powerful transformative power of imagination is that we can empathize with people whose experiences we have never shared.”

From a speech to graduates of Harvard University.

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“Writing is more a need than love. Some people may sympathize with the fact that I have to spend most of my adult life in fictional worlds, as if something is missing in my real life. But this is not the case! I am generally a happy person: I have a family that I adore and quite a few activities that I enjoy. It's just that I have other worlds in my head that I often move to, and I don't know what it's like to live differently."

From answers to readers' questions.