J. K. Rowling Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• 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

• Failure 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. Rowling

  Failure, People, Important

• Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fun, Awful, Failing

• Some failure in life is inevitable. 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 have failed by default. Failure gave me an inner security that I had never obtained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things that I could not have learned any other way. I discovered I had a strong will and more discipline than I had suspected.

  J. K. Rowling

  Strong, Discipline, Examination

• Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer - which it definitely feels like when you're struggling to write regularly or can't seem to earn a living as a freelance writer - maybe you need to take a long-term perspective.

  J. K. Rowling

  Struggle, Writing, Long

• "Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reflection, Men, Details

  "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Book by J. K. Rowling, June 21, 2003.

• You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail.

  J. K. Rowling

  Education, Literacy, Failing

• You have to be free to fail in this world.

  J. K. Rowling

  World, Failing, This World

• You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

  J. K. Rowling

  Blood, Potters, Matter

• Everything that fails brings you closer to what works.

  J. K. Rowling

  Failing

• I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.

  J. K. Rowling

  People, Trying, Want

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