J. K. Rowling Quotes About Failure

Quotes about: Failure

• 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 means a stripping away of the inessential.

  J. K. Rowling

  Failure, Mean, Stripping

• Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

  J. K. Rowling

  Failure, Energy, Finishing

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.37, Hachette UK

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