Magic Harry Potter Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Friendship, Courage

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ch. 17 (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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• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death, Travel, Adventure

  J. K. Rowling (2002). “Spark Notes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone”, Spark Notes

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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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• There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

  J. K. Rowling

  Funny Friendship, Liking Someone, Potters

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• Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Family, Home

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• Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fear, Names, Inspirational Harry Potter

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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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• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Jun 6, 2016

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• Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

  J. K. Rowling

  Trust, Halloween, Technology

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

  J. K. Rowling

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Evil, Harry Potter Movie

  "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Inspirational Harry Potter, Deceit

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• He chose the boy he thought most likely to be a danger to him," said Dumbledore. And notice this, Harry. He chose, not the pureblood (which, according to his creed, is the only kind of wizard worth being or knowing), but the half-blood, like himself. He saw himself in you before he had ever seen you, and in marking you with that scar, he did not kill you, as he intended, but gave you powers, and a future, which have fitted you to escape him not once, but four times so far — something that neither your parents, nor Neville’s parents, ever achieved.

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Blood, Knowing

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• When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love, Life, Underestimate

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• Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

  J. K. Rowling

  Age, Potters, Youth

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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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• They don't know we're not allowed to use magic at home. I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer.

  J. K. Rowling

  Summer, Fun, Home

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• To Harry Potter — the boy who lived!

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Potters, Deathly Hallows

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• Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

  J. K. Rowling

  Music, Magic, Harry Potter

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• 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

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• The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Potters, Our Actions

  "Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 8, 1999.

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• Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.

  J. K. Rowling

  Integrity, Boys, Choices

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• The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Our Words, Sometimes

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Emotional, Funny Harry Potter

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