J. K. Rowling

Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

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 fail by default.

What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time, and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

Ah music… a magic beyond all we do here!

If you seek the removal of freedoms from an opponent simply on the grounds that they have offended you, you have crossed a line to stand alongside tyrants who imprison, torture and kill on exactly the same justifications.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

The great majority of people are wandering generalities rather than meaningful specifics. The fact is that you can’t hit a target that you can’t see. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

We don’t get what we want, we get what we think we deserve… ask for more.

Lack of direction not lack of time is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

The best way out is always through.

When people are in a focused state, the words I can’t,I’ll try,I’ll do it tomorrow,and maybeget forced out of their vocabularies.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

When you make a promise, keep it.

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities – always see them, for they are always there.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

Remember there’s no such thing as an unrealistic goal, just unrealistic time frames!

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.