There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you.

—J. K. Rowling

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Joanne Rowling ( ROH-ling; born 31 July 1965), better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, philanthropist, producer, and screenwriter. She is best known for writing Harry Potter, a seven-volume series about a young wizard and the best-selling book series in history, with over 600...

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It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

—J. K. Rowling

Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.

—J. K. Rowling

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

—J. K. Rowling

Praise youth and it will prosper.

—J. K. Rowling

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

—J. K. Rowling

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If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

—G. M. Trevelyan

One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.

—Benvenuto Cellini

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

—Abraham Lincoln

You alone are responsible for what you do, don't do, or how you respond to what's done to you.

—Darren Hardy in The Compound Effect

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