J. K. Rowling Quotes

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

Don't give up, courage is my conviction.

No one step back, that is the idea.... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us!.... What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards.... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am.

If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

Courage is the most important of the virtues because it is the one that makes all the others possible.

I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.

It was just bred in me that I would not back down to guys who were bigger than me.

I'm not scared of anyone. They have two arms and two legs, and I will do my best and win.

Our blood don't run. Sometimes we want to. Sometimes we ought to. But we don't ever run from anyone or anything.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

I took my Power in my Hand -- And went against the World -- 'Twas not so much as David -- had -- But I -- was twice as bold -- I aimed by Pebble -- but Myself Was all the one that fell -- Was it Goliath -- was too large -- Or was myself -- too small?

I hope this brings someone else the courage they need to face whatever challenge is before them.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.

Don't ever give up on yourself. Keep pushing because the change of guards is what life's all about. [...] You've always got to stick with whatever you're into because you're day is going to come. You're day is destined. If you walk away from that, whether it be from fear or whether you're just giving up. [...] The greatest sin is fear and giving up.

They will never count me among the broken men.

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.