Best 63 quotes of Christopher Reeve on MyQuotes

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

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.

All the scientists who are working on solving the problem of curing paralysis say that it won't do you any good if you don't keep your body in shape.

America is better when all of us take care of all of us.

At some time, often when we least expect it, we all have to face overwhelming challenges. When the unthinkable happens, the lighthouse is hope. Once we find it, we must cling to it with absolute determination. When we have hope, we discover powers within ourselves we may have never known- the power to make sacrifices, to endure, to heal, and to love. Once we choose hope, everything is possible.

By reaching out, more comes back than you can possibly imagine.

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

Don't put a limit on what can be accomplished.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.

Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.

Every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon.

For everyone who thought I couldn’t do it… for everyone who thought I shouldn’t do it… for everyone who said, ‘It’s impossible’… see you at the finish line!

Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from about the age of nine. I guess it was the environment that got me started.

I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.

I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.

I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.

I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the movies, it's the same thing.

If you don't have a vision, nothing happens.

I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.

I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.

I have never been disabled in my dreams.

I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

I'm starting a new chapter in my [[life], and you have no idea how much that means.

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller, everything is very scaled down. Everyone is typecast.

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.

I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset.

I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.

It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too.

It's important to me to say what I really mean.

Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.

Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob.

Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.

On the wall of his rehabilitation room was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at NASA. On top of the picture it says, "We found nothing is impossible." That should be our motto.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.

People may never understand this - and perhaps I should give up caring whether they do or not - but the idea of me playing Superman is so far away from what I was brought up to aspire to.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.

Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.

The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

The key to success is letting the relationships in your life grow to the highest levels they possibly can . . . not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have.

We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.