J. K. Rowling Quotes

But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.

For one cannot assume that God exists to help people who are too cowardly and too lazy to help themselves and think that God exists only to make up for the weakness of mankind. He does not exist for that purpose. He has always, at all times, blessed only those who were prepared to fight their own battles.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

He is great enough that is his own master.

You cannot rely on other people's support.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

Liberation does not come from outside.

Freedom is from within.

I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.

I'm in control of my life.

You should lead your own life, do what you have to. If people recognize you, it gives you support. If they don't, how does it matter?

I've never felt like I was living in anyone's shadow. My life was what it was.

Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

I've learned not to buy into what other people say. I've learned not to put dreams in other people's hands.

I'm not going to let other people set my limitations.

Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior, Standing on my own two feet.

in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.

True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.