Nick Hornby Quotes

Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that.

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.

If we are going to create the future, then we must break down the barriers that are holding us back from our full potential.

There are very real obstacles and challenges to any course of action. And there's no need to add to them, by making up obstacles of your own. Unchain yourself from the bondage of your own thinking.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.

I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.

You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.

Every wall is a door.

restrictions create frustrations!

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

I am bigger than the box I'm in.

You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

Too many locks, not enough keys.

Nothing is stopping me from doing anything. I haven't got a golden handcuff.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

Grant yourself permission to have all that life has to offer, and you will discover it has more to offer than you've ever imagined.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

Form is burden. Sometimes being part of the system enslaves the mind and greatly limits the imagination by enslaving it to form. Form is a burden to the mind that sees no limits. Form is a prison for the soul who sees possibilities outside the lines and wishes to test them.

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.

But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

You do not know what you can achieve until you try.