Christopher Reeve quotes

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Strength

Once you choose hope, anything's possible
-- Christopher Reeve

#Inspirational #Positive #Hope

Once we choose hope, everything is possible.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Writing

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.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Laughter #Live Life #Joy

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

#Inspirational #Life #Ocean

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Responsibility #Achievement #Looks

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.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Letting Go #Adversity #Simple

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

#Guy #Lucky #Awareness

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

#Greatness #Limits #Accomplished

Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Mind #Body #Spirit

We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Self

there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it
-- Christopher Reeve

#Mind #Body

If I can laugh, I can live.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Laughing

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Ability To Love #Endure #Ability

Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Heart #Mind #Body

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Hero #Maturity #Views

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

#Hero #Knowing #Doubt

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

#People #Use #Body

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.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Advice #Necks #Needs

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

#Life #Atheist #Believe

You've got to give more than you take.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Giving

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.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Real #Teenager #Thinking

To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Able #Feels

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.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Thinking #Voice #Listening

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Time #Moving #Health

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Uplifting #Giving Up

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

#Positive #Inspiring #Graduation

You should have a dream and absolutely go for it. Don't let anybody say you can't do it.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Dream #Should

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

#Mean #Ideas #Starting

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

#Adversity #Faces #Form

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.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Keys #Giving #Levels

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

#Imagine #Reaching #Reach Out

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.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Powerful #Moving #Mean

I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Dream #Stills

I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build?
-- Christopher Reeve

#Wonder

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Accepting #Ultimatum #Conventional Wisdom

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.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Brother #Father #Responsibility

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

#Optimistic #Fighting #Issues

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.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Summer #School #College

You can do anything you think you can.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Perseverance #Thinking

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Wisdom #Acceptance #Thinking

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.
-- Christopher Reeve

#People #Awareness Of Others #Needs

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.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Body #Shapes #Problem

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.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Summer #School #Men

There is no such thing as can't.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Inspiring

I have never been disabled in my dreams.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Dream #Vision

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Might #Harps #Might Have Been

When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences... Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Hero #Thinking #Ordinary

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.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Way #Disability #Living My Life

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

#Vision #Things Happen

Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Pain #Choices #Misery

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

#Lexicon #Impossible #Scientist

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

#Mean #Important #Importance

If we don't dream of the possible, the possible never happens.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Dream

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

#Ignorance #Giving #Neurosurgeons

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

#Change #Trying #Looks

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.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Ideas #People #Movement

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Giving #Littles #Satisfaction

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.
-- Christopher Reeve

#Determination #Sacrifice #Challenges

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

#Predictions #Said

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

#Hero #Ordinary #Way

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!
-- Christopher Reeve

#Lines #Impossible #Finish Line